The take-home message here is that the repercussions of fatigue on residents are considerable. This is a national problem, and we shouldn’t consider it solved by an 80-hour cap on hours.

The last thing we want to suggest is that it’s O.K. to throw a medication at something without understanding the problem, … Insomnia is a symptom, not a disorder. It’s like pain. You’re not going...

There’s just never been anything like this before, with so many displaced people, and they’re going to be displaced for so long,

[How much to prescribe is an open question.] The absurdity of this is that a lot of times we’re put in a position of saying, ‘Well, I guess we’ll just give them half the adult...

There’s a risk to the resident doctors, and there’s a risk to people that residents may crash into on the way home.

Caffeine is the most widely used drug in the world. That’s right, drug,

They’re dealing with challenging kids all day long, and then no one’s sleeping at night, … It’s like the straw that broke the camel’s back.

We have to continue to educate doctors-in-training, and we should help them develop sleep risk-management strategies,