Comment Just like truck drivers? (Score 1) 332
I don't know how it's there in US, but here in Europe professions such as long-haul truck and tourist bus drivers are regulated so that they are not allowed to drive for, say, 36 hours w/o sleep, and it's enforced by monitoring their shift schedules.
Patient 'consent' wouldn't be a solution, but hospitals definitely could enforce rules that no surgeon can get a shift for more than x consecutive hours without having a break in between that would allow for proper full night sleep.