Is Your Doctor Sleeping Six Hours in the Night?

If your surgeon has only slept six hours in the night before they perform the surgery on you, you have a 170 % increase risk of major surgical error. One out of every 20 junior doctors will kill a patient due to a fatigue related error. The place that you need the benefit of sleep most is probably the place where you will least get a decent night of sleep, which is on a hospital ward. Think about the neonatal intensive care unit. We used to leave lights blazing. Now, we've done studies. As a consequence, they have more structured wake sleep cycles. They have about a 50 to 60% increase in their oxygen saturation. It's sleep. You know, why don