Doctors Share Pictures of Themselves Asleep at Work
Doctors Share Pictures of Themselves Asleep at Work – A blog post from earlier this month that criticized a medical resident in Mexico for sleeping on the job has led to a social media movement with doctors defending their long hours and need for rest.
In the post, the writer chastised the young resident, who reportedly fell asleep at 3 a.m. doing paperwork, and posted a picture of her asleep on a desk. But when Mexican doctor Juan Carlos heard about the criticism, he defended the young doctor by using the hashtag #YoTambienMeDormi (“I’ve also fallen asleep”), and inadvertently sparked a movement.
Carlos wrote on Twitter, “I’ve also fallen asleep after operating on one, two, three and even four patients on any regular shift.” Many people in the medical field in Latin America began to use the hashtag to show pictures of themselves sleeping on the job, which often requires young doctors to work for shifts up to 36 hours. Paolo Perez, a surgeon in Ecuador, wrote “36 hours working non-stop are impossible without 10 minutes of rest.”
But needing to rest after working an unreasonably long shift doesn’t mean the doctors aren’t good at their jobs, they argue. Mexican doctor Marcela Cueva told the BBC that doctors should be treated as normal humans with the same “physiological needs” as everyone else.
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