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42. Your Doctor Has to Go Home. Now What?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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The Efficiency of Slacking Off

If you have a lot of overlap between two doctors, you can slowly taper your work as you're nearing the end of shift. The emergency department doctor really s going home, and the hospital wants to make sure that patients are well taken care of with a good use of resources. So there's a bit of an irony that slacking is actually efficient when you have the incentive to go home.

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