Aswad
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ORIGINAL: MisPandora I fantasize about sleep all the time, most often when I'm at work pulling 24 hours of clinical call. Oops, sorry, wrong 'sleep fantasy' LOL That would do it for me, too. ~lol~ Seriously, when a hospital has informal rules about only letting "fresh" doctors (i.e. those who just came on shift) treat relatives of other doctors, there is something horribly wrong going on. I imagine the situation is just as precarious for nurses. I'm not in the medical profession (at the moment, at least), but I have done a five-day shift, early in my career. I dimly recall getting into a cab, my vision being all red and green "auras", hands shaking, passing out in the cab repeatedly, some fuss at the hotel, and then waking up to someone shouting "you should have checked out 6 hours ago!", replying "one more day!" or somesuch, and then waking up the next evening. Even if I still could, which I doubt (capacity for decreased sleep drops in the early twenties)... never again.
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"If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew: God doesn't make the world this way. We do." -- Rorschack, Watchmen.
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