
Sleep-deprived doctors-in-training more likely to make serious errors
From prescribing overdoses to sticking a tube in the wrong vein, doctors-in-training made one-third more serious mistakes during typically long shifts than they did during “short” 16-hour ones, a Harvard study found.
Those first-year interns were wired up with electrodes to measure how often their sleepy eyes rolled, and they ended up nodding off more than five times a night during long shifts.