![]() 2011, the Federal Aviation Association (FAA) released new regulations prohibiting pilots from getting less than 10 hours off between shifts. Part martyr and part hero, it’s welded into the culture of medicine.Ĭontrast again the OBGYN’s work life with that of pilots. “Just part of the job” is the prevailing attitude among doctors in practice when it comes to sleep deprivation. “I don’t know if sleep deprivation is a big deal for me,” the OBGYN went on to say with little doubt in his voice, “beyond the fact that it’s just not pleasant to be tired.” At the time of the call, the OBGYN was doing a Jack Bauer-he’d been up for 24 hours watching over a woman in labor-and was about to perform a Caesarean section. “I can function doing what I do with very little sleep, almost robotically,” said an attending obstetrician-gynecologist who phoned Minnesota Public Radio’s The Daily Show-on which I was a guest talking about medical errors.
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