Mary Dejevsky

If nurses are really ‘at breaking point’, they should stop working 12-hour shifts

Doing a full week's work in three days is not in patients' interests

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Mary Dejevsky
Mary Dejevsky is a writer, broadcaster, and former foreign correspondent in Moscow, Paris and Washington.

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