Would You Trust A Sleepy Surgeon?

If someone is going to cut on me, I want to make sure they are full of vim and vigor. Sharp as a fresh scalpel. And that they had a perfectly, wonderful, full night’s sleep before they go to work on me. And I don’t care if it’s for a hangnail or clogged artery. I want a full level of alertness.
Yet a new study out of Canada in the New England Journal of Medicine says sleep deprivation among cutters isn’t that big a deal. Lots of sleep. Little sleep. It really makes no dif