The Cost of Awake: Sleep Deprivation in Medicine | Laura Vater

Imagine this. Your child's school bus is weaving erratically down the road. Any parents in here.Okay. The driver stops, opens the door, and says wearily, "Good morning. Don't worry. I'm not drunk. I just haven't slept in 24 hours." Would you let your child get on that bus. We understand impairment when it's from alcohol, but we don't talk about it when it's from fatigue, even though the science is clear.Fatigue is impairment. One classic study looked at essentially alcohol compared to fatigue and found that ...