Sleep Deprived Doctors

  1. Doctors working extra long shifts is a long-standing controversy in the USA.
  2. Residents have been known to work 36-hour shifts without sleep.
  3. Sleep deprivation causes impaired judgment and slow reaction times.
  4. Sleep deprived surgeons have made catastrophic mistakes during surgery.
  5. Traditional doctors worry about continuity of care.
  6. They also seem to have a God-complex and feel they are superior to other doctors.
  7. They believe that the natural laws of sleep deprivation don’t apply to themselves.
  8. The new paradigm for patient care should be one of teamwork.