Doctors and Decision Fatigue

I wonder if there is “scouting” fatigue?  Does this suggest a two half-day format might yield better implications than a day-long event?  We certainly know that participants report “mental exhaustion” at the end of long sessions.

The phenomenon of “decision fatigue” has been found in judges, who are more likely to deny parole at the end of the day than at the beginning. Now researchers have found a parallel effect in physicians: As the day wears on, doctors become increasingly more likely to prescribe antibiotics even when they are not indicated.

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