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Experts in psychiatry and workplace wellness previously told Newsweek that long hours are linked to sleep disruption, impaired executive function and even structural changes in the brain.
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Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Hospitality can be demanding — long hours, unexpected challenges and constant change.
—Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Soliman is known as an elegant dresser, but his apartment was in bachelor-pad disarray, a reflection of his long hours at the hospital and the abruptness of his detention, said his friends, also clerics.
—Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
The first physicians’ union formed in 1934, when hospital residents – doctors in training who tended then, as now, to be paid relatively little and forced to work long hours – organized to demand higher pay and shorter shifts.
—Patrick Aguilar, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
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Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Hospitality can be demanding — long hours, unexpected challenges and constant change.
—Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Soliman is known as an elegant dresser, but his apartment was in bachelor-pad disarray, a reflection of his long hours at the hospital and the abruptness of his detention, said his friends, also clerics.
—Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
The first physicians’ union formed in 1934, when hospital residents – doctors in training who tended then, as now, to be paid relatively little and forced to work long hours – organized to demand higher pay and shorter shifts.
—Patrick Aguilar, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Long hours.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/long%20hours. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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