Catholic University Law Review Volume 51 Issue 3 Spring 2002 Article 8 2002 A Dose of Their Own Medicine: Why the Federal Government Must Ensure Healthy Working Conditions for Medical Residents and How Reform Should Be Accomplished Dori Page Antonetti Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.edu/lawreview Recommended Citation Dori P. Antonetti, A Dose of Their Own Medicine: Why the Federal Government Must Ensure Healthy Working Conditions for Medical Residents and How Reform Should Be Accomplished, 51 Cath. U. L. Rev. 875 (2002). Available at: https://scholarship.law.edu/lawreview/vol51/iss3/8 This Comments is brought to you for free and open access by CUA Law Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Catholic University Law Review by an authorized editor of CUA Law Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. COMMENTS A DOSE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE: WHY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MUST ENSURE HEALTHY WORKING CONDITIONS FOR MEDICAL RESIDENTS AND HOW REFORM SHOULD BE ACCOMPLISHED Dori Pag Antonettt - Reflecting on his experience in the intensive care unit, a novice doctor wrote the following entry in his diary: [I found a medical resident'] trying to intubate a lifetime asthmatic who is as blue as this ink .... I keep hoping he's going to be too blue to go anywhere. Probably a nice man with a loving wife and concerned children, but I don't want that SOB ...to live if it means I don't sleep .... I just want to sleep.2 + J.D. Candidate, May 2003, The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law.