Falling asleep on duty is just the start

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Falling asleep on duty is just the start

Barbara Docherty

Barbara Docherty

Nurse, hospital scrubs

As junior doctors continue their strike, primary care nurse and educator Barbara Docherty recalls her own nurse training where long hours and night shifts led to errors of judgement

There is no such switch as an auto doc. And that’s no laughing matter I feel a bit sheepish having a laugh at someone else’s expense, but a lette