not really NEW news, but...

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43520541/ns/health/

This part jumped out at me:

"It also recommends that residents should be subject to increased supervision by attending physicians and hand off routine work like blood draws or paperwork to other staff."

 

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Blood draws are a waste of time for a doc. It doesn't make any sense financially to have the highest paid people completing a task that nurses, cna's, or phlebs can do at an extreme savings to the hospital system.