How sleep deprevation affects doctors

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Medical residents across Canada routinely work marathon shifts. What impact do those long hours have on the care you receive?

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Lack of sleep for long hours makes a man is acting hysterically

eliashamid
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Yeah I remember doing 36 hour shifts. It prepared me for emergency calls as an Attending when no one else was available and a procedure needed to be done stat. I recall an evening, when I was NOT on call, and a pacemaker wire got stuck; I had to drive in even though I hadn't slept in 2 days. Doctors, unfortunately, don't have the luxury of sleep sometimes, and we have to do our job while exhausted or somebody dies. Training young doctors to function while fatigued is part of the process.

naryanshukle
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Sleep deprivation is not only a problem in the medical profession I drive truck and from what i have seen on the roads there are a lot of sleep deprived people out there .. and when they meet on the hwy another doctor is about to get less sleep..

vasab
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Ontario's healthcare is way better than Quebec already so how fantastic it would be with higher number of doctors to take turn!

mersy
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26 hours? Heck I'd take that, for my residency it was 36-48 hours with barely an hour or two of sleep if I was lucky

kcmn
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Hmmm,
Mothers Against Drowsy Doctors

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