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Claims about pre-duty-hour-era 80+ hour weeks challenged

March 25, 2026Conrad Fischer

Conrad Fischer argues internal medicine had an 80-hour cap since 1990, calling out nostalgia claims of routinely exceeding it as factually wrong and comparable to misinformation tropes.

“if you are in Internal Medicine, the 80 hour cap was in place from 1990”
“and you did NOT do "More than 80 hours a week" by federal regulation”
“Like saying "Ivermectin works for COVID" which is a .....”
Conrad Fischer
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