re: Professions with most danger due to lack of sleep

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).