re: Professions with most danger due to lack of sleep

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Nuclear reactor controller

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Nah. As a former reactor operator on submarines, they’re pretty self sustaining during steady state ops on mission. Half of the maneuvering room on deployment would be in various states of awakeness

Truck driver

Pretty much anything in a circus

- tightrope walker
- lion tamer
- motorcycle rider in the “Globe of Death”

The emergency lap chole that started my health collapse was the last night of the surgeon on call. He gave me the umbilical hernia repaired last summer finally and he tried to claim it was congenital (I used to spend summers shirtless for the most part and was always in tremendous shape as a track sprinter, no hernia prior to the surgery). He commented several times about being tired and worn out physically.

So my take would be surgeon.

ETA: for those claiming surgeon only affects individuals: when I was working in surgical day hospitals in the Dallas area they were all talking about the highly recruited surgeon out of TN that came to Baylor and promptly started having “negative outcomes” like crippling and killing patients. It took several years to get him out of the business and face charges (drugs and too many hours were part of the life he was living).

Crane Operator.

Only ones in Plants that aren't run off for taking naps.

Mother

We’re reminded every May that being a mother is the toughest job in the world. I can only imagine that without sleep, it’s just that much tougher…

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