title: The working day in medicine: lessons from the air.
abstract: This article discusses whether it would be wrong to explain a mistake involving medical responsibility on the basis of an opinion that the professional was not in the optimum physical or mental state at the moment the mistake took place.
authors.affiliation: Department of Legal Medicine, College of Medicine and Odontology, University of Valencia EG, 46010 Valencia, Spain.
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Castelló
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Verdú
mesh_terms: D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors; D016743:Mental Competency; D010815:Physician Impairment; D012941:Social Responsibility; D006113:United Kingdom; D014940:Work Schedule Tolerance