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he research, led by Dr. Anupam Jena, a senior resident at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, found that half of 150 Illinois resident physicians said they had gone to work sick over the previous year. One in six reported to work three or more times, the survey found.
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"They're less productive and more likely to make errors," Jena said. "And they can transmit the disease to somebody else."
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Only last year, for instance, a doctor who came to work sick was responsible for launching a small outbreak of norovirus at Massachusetts General,
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"The main question is whether those policies are being enforced," Jena told Reuters Health.
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Anyone who has ever been to med school or around a med school knows that physicians in training are more often than not treated like rented mules.
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When residents fall sick, there are a large group of residents that can fill in," said Jena. "When you are in private practice and you become sick, you don't have a pool of physicians that you can draw on to cover for you."
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n which 57 percent of residents said they had worked while sick," said the report.
