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Challenging the 80-Hour Work Week

By Tom Graham

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Charlottesville – For most people, a law that would prevent you from spending more than 80 hours a week at work might not seem like much of a problem.

But a new survey shows that just such a regulation is causing concern at medical schools across the country.

WMRA's Tom Graham has the story of a neurosurgeon from Charlottesville who helped designed the survey.