American cardiothoracic trainees want longer hours too.

EDITOR,--We are currently visiting England from the United States and training as senior surgical registrars in paediatric cardiac surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital. As interested external observers of the British system of medical training, we strongly support the letter from the British senior registrars in cardiothoracic surgery.1 Like them, we believe that “cardiothoracic surgery is by reputation, and often in …