Public Health: Got Sleep?
We need the brilliant minds behind our nation’s best public health commercials on the issue of sleep deprivation. But only after a good night of sleep.
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U.S. incarcerated populations have long dealt with chronic sleep deprivation, often with little to no reprieve.
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Read more: Well-rested versus well-trained doctors: New twist in debate over resident duty hours (Part II) Well-rested versus well-trained doctors: New twist in debate over resident duty hours (Part II)
By Brad Segal When people fall acutely ill, they deserve a non-sleep deprived doctor—but they also deserve an adequately-trained doctor. There are only so many hours to the day, and so in medical education a resident’s need for self-care must be balanced against the need for maximum clinical exposure. Since 2003, when restrictions to resident duty…