Chronic Health Conditions Discussion and Support

Studies have been done in humans. I'm pretty sure the book I found that in is Why We Sleep by Matthew P. Walker.

I have been bothered a lot by the fact that nurses these days typically work a 10 or 12 hour shift. And I'm talking scheduled shifts. Either 36 or 40 hours a week in normal times, and of course many of them are working six 12 hour shifts in a row. Even without a pandemic going on, I know I don't want to be treated by a nurse in the 11th hour of his shift, or by a doctor who's been working 36 hours straight. I know one claim about the need for such long hours for interns and residents is that they can follow a patient through. Well, no matter how long you make them work, at some point the shift ends and they go home. And I bet they'd learn a lot more a lot faster if they weren't so constantly sleep deprived.

Tech companies are similar. I once read that the i-phone would probably have come to market a year and a half earlier if the teams working on it had worked normal hours, not the insanity of 100 hour weeks.

I will go back to my conviction that a significant aspect of my annoyingly good health is a lifetime of adequate sleep.