A recent article in Forbes explains how sleep deprivation endangers the safety of medical residents. The author, who is a doctor, describes a brush with death that happened during his third year of medical school while he was still a resident. According to the author, he was on call for a day-and-a-half when he dozed off while driving to the OB/GYN ward. He scraped up the side of his car against a cement lane divider, but did not suffer injuries. Incidents like this one are c