Junior doctors' hours

doi:10.1136/bmj.311.7012.1093c

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Christopher Wong

Senior house officer Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Cardiff Royal Infirmary, Cardiff CF1 1SZ

Committee response was ignorant

EDITOR,--I could not have hoped for a better reply to my letter on junior doctors' hours than that from Keith Reid.1 It sums up the ignorance of the Junior Doctors' Committee about the basic concept of training. Training in any profession requires exposure and practice: practice makes perfect. To gain experience in medicine one has to be exposed to clinical situations. It …