The Home Drive

Dr. Abhishek (Fictional Name) was a junior resident in the surgery department at AIIMS, New Delhi. He was on 24-hour call duty on Wednesday followed by Operation theatre on Thursday which ended with the senior resident’s round in the night.

After the round, Dr. Abhishek completed the ward work by late night. Although he was exhausted and sleep deprived due to continuous work for the last 36 hours he decided to drive to his home in the city and have a relaxing sleep.

While driving back home, the lack of sleep and mental exhaustion took its toll and his car overturned at a sharp curve.  People residing nearby saw the accident and rescued him from the overturned car. Luckily he suffered only relatively minor injuries. From that day onwards he vowed to never drive back if in mentally exhausted or sleep deprived condition.

After alcohol intoxication, lack of sleep and mental exhaustion is a very big factor in road traffic accident. At all cost avoid driving after long duty hours. Either take a cab or grab some rest in the hospital or office itself. It is better to have an uncomfortable but safe sleep in the hospital or office then a risky drive to get good sleep at home.

(Based on true incident)

— ND
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DISCLAIMER: This article is intended only for fun purpose. The author does not promote or recommend any behavior illustrated here or claim it to be useful. Use of the information herein is at you one's own risk. Before trying to emulate or follow anything the reader is well advised to take into account ethical, moral, legal and other considerations. The author recommends that Medical Education should be of the highest ethical and moral level keeping in mind the interest of the patient as foremost and according to MCI and other Board’s norm. 

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