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Volume 358:2091-2093 May 15, 2008 Number 20
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Like Night and Day — Shedding Light on Off-Hours Care
David J. Shulkin, M.D.

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Lately, I've been coming to work at midnight. You see, I've begun making late-night administrative rounds at the hospital where I am president and chief executive officer. No, I'm not nostalgic for my harrowing days as a resident. Rather, these middle-of-the-nighters are part of an initiative of mine intended to address a matter that is of increasing concern at hospitals throughout the country: the stark discrepancy in quality between daytime and nighttime inpatient services.

Like many hospital executives, I've come to appreciate the fact that I work in two distinct places, though they share the same address. One is a . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Dr. Shulkin is the president and chief executive officer of Beth Israel Medical Center and a professor of medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine — both in New York.




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