As a follow-up from my post on Jan 14, 2010 “Are you wasting your surgeons’ time?” showing how surgeons can decrease their time in the OR, here’s a recent article from the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research and Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, with the significant section highlighted that correlates dissatisfaction with working more than 50 hours per week.

“We also found satisfaction was significantly and positively related to income and employment in a medical school but negatively associated with more than 50 work-hours per-week”

Physician satisfaction with work hours.