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Surgeon Caught Asleep On The Floor After Epic 28-Hour Shift, And Now His Photos Are Going Viral
Being a doctor is not only a hard job but an exhausting one too. Surgeon Luo Heng performed 5 operations over a total of 28 hours. He did two emergency surgery’s overnight and then 3 more the following morning. After his extremely long shift, Heng was captured sleeping on the hospital floor and looking comfy as ever. The pic was posted on a Chinese social media site called Weibo and ever since people have been praising him for his dedication to work.
It’s not the first time we see pics of doctors sleeping at work but we must say, after 28 hours of work, Doctor Heng sure deserved a nice nap!
(h/t: weibo)
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Li Li Mac 8 years ago
He doesn't deserve a nap on a floor. He deserves a hot shower, a good feed and a good log sleep in a safe and comfortable home.
Pavel Nekoranec 8 years ago
Dedication, sure sure, but the most alarming thing is, that he had to work 28 hours. That's horrible, who would like to be the last patient of surgeon who didn't sleep last 24 hours?
Ricky Couture 8 years ago
While I do fully respect his dedication, this seems like a malpractice suit waiting to happen. I have no idea what the differences are between American and Chineses laws in this regard, but 28 hours without sleep is the same everywhere. And I have serious doubts that he's not slightly impaired, if not greatly so, operating with that kind of sleep deprivation. Give me even 20 hours without sleep and my brain turns foggy. After 28, I'd pretty much just be on co-pilot.
Alusair Alustriel 8 years ago
I though the same. As I can admire his devotion and dedication, I wouldn't want him to do my surgery. 28 hours of doing something that requires your upmost concentration is devastating... And people who introduced laws permitting that should be sued.
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Captain Planet 8 years ago
I can't imagine working that long being good for his concentration and the health of his patient. I say this is worth no praise. But more an alarm bell. The more tired you are the more likeley you are to make mistakes and thus let patients die.
Marina Stanojevic 8 years ago
Alarming is what this is. Why does the medical establishment think they can perform life saving surgeries when they're sleep deprived? The FAA keeps strict tabs on the number of hours pilots and crew can fly as a matter of public safety. I don't understand why the AMA doesn't explore similar schedules?
Raluca Simiuc 8 years ago
In Romania a shift = 24 hours, starting from 6 am until the next day at 6 am. After that the same doctor who ended a 24 hour shift must also do the normal 8 hour/day programme. Which equals 32 hours of work with no sleep. Furthermore, the medical residents doing shifts are not even paid for shifts.
Muhammet Kartal 8 years ago
Same in Turkey. Furthermore being subjected to violence by patients and their relatives is not the rare case
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Ildiko S. 8 years ago
When it comes to doctors, we way too often accept if not demand such an enormous amount of working hours. Because, this is hwow it is, they should be devoted, I don't know exactly why. Could you imagine, if a company did the same to their office workers? Or actually, in any other place or positions? Everyone would consider it cruel and illegal. But when it comes to the surgeon: how cute! Terrible approach:S
Melody Lanzatella 8 years ago
I think that interns having such brutal schedules is just SO dumb! What better way to cause new doctors to make mistakes?! Especially when peoples lives hang in the balance! I have always thought this practice is SO irresponsible!!
Błażej Kopera 8 years ago
Photo of doctor Religa by James L. Stanfield, 1987 james-l-st...4dad98.jpg 
Susan Davies 8 years ago
Definitely portrays hard work and dedication but I worry about anyone who works 28 hours straight, especially someone in a profession like surgery where there's little room for mistakes. Did the last patient get the same amount of dedicated attention to detail that the first patient got? There has long been a tendency of medical schools to schedule their residents and interns to work up to 48 hours with only a couple of meal breaks. Is this supposed to toughen them up for a hard career? It certainly seems like it's putting patients at risk. There's nothing heroic about working straight for 28 hours on complex emergency cases when you're losing focus and starting to drift off while you're working.
Melissa Brown 8 years ago
Where I live at doctors don't even show up to work and only see you for less than 5 mins when they do decide to show up. Different cultures.
Kikka io 8 years ago
I've worked in the operating room for ten years and I know what it means. I worked for 28 hours, because sometimes you have to do it and in the end you find yourself trying to steal a minute of sleep where you can do it. For example, if you happen to be available on a week-end, with no one to give you a change, stitch your teeth and work. I also happened to have slept for two days later when I got home.
Gillian Black 8 years ago
there always has to be doubters and faultfinders these people are dedicated and run on adrenalin he is the person I would want at my side if I was sick thank you for all you guys and women do your are real heros. and it is called sleep where you drop
Deirdre Jane Southworth 8 years ago
I know of a doctor who was found sleeping in a linen cupboard when he was exhausted !
Katinka Min 8 years ago
Yeah, let's make the people that cut around in our insides to save our lives work two days in a row. But make sure no truck driver will ever go beyond his allowed time frame!! Priorities, people!
Elizabeth Scarborough 8 years ago
Truck drivers are not allowed to drive more than 10 hours but Doctors can work and perform surgeries with a lack of sleep. Granted this is in China but I know many a new MD working hospital shifts just as long here in the US.
Susann Campbell 8 years ago
They sleep when they can, poor guy didn't make it to the sleeping room for Dr's , just too tired to travel across the Hospital and he is near the Surgery if needed.
Jan Virtue 8 years ago
WOW! What a Fantastic Mind, Skill and Will. AND, he performed them without difficulty and the Patients are doing Wonderfully! So, people talking about him operating on them, sleep deprivation and all that c**p - YOU'RE NOT A DOCTOR! You have no idea what type of training, will, mind and expertise this man has. Obviously, you're not on his level, NOR can you imagine it. Some people have no idea what it means to be ABOVE THE NORM. When you are, this is what you do, and more. Feebs.
Bertha Garcia 8 years ago
I think they meant the operation lasted 28 hours and not that he enter the operation 20 hours into his shift. Idk if you change surgeon in the middle of the operation.
Mateo Freolo 8 years ago
A lot of people don't see this side of medicine, especially in the hospital. Its not all Greys Anatomy and cute interactions; there's hours research and formulation. Nurses in hospitals work 12hour shifts, doctors work (typically in the US in the hospitals I work) 72 shifts on-call. Straight. They have teams and residents behind them also. The idea behind the longer hours is continuity of care for the patient. Handing off your patient to different people inherently looses information and time. I'm not saying that that it's not an outdated system, but patients come first. This doctor probably only had a few minutes between his next surgery case to take a quick nap. Most hospitals I've been in have call rooms and private kitchens for doctors. Believe me, they are taken care off. I work 12 hr shifts, there are days I need to put my head down to keep going. =]
Misha Marsha 8 years ago
Sue...for me better changed and give good suggestuon and effort..it is much better than sue...i have to do double task as some people said hosp staff is over load???i dont how true is that yes it make us tirwd and we cannot give good service as we cannot cope
Li Li Mac 8 years ago
He doesn't deserve a nap on a floor. He deserves a hot shower, a good feed and a good log sleep in a safe and comfortable home.
Pavel Nekoranec 8 years ago
Dedication, sure sure, but the most alarming thing is, that he had to work 28 hours. That's horrible, who would like to be the last patient of surgeon who didn't sleep last 24 hours?
Ricky Couture 8 years ago
While I do fully respect his dedication, this seems like a malpractice suit waiting to happen. I have no idea what the differences are between American and Chineses laws in this regard, but 28 hours without sleep is the same everywhere. And I have serious doubts that he's not slightly impaired, if not greatly so, operating with that kind of sleep deprivation. Give me even 20 hours without sleep and my brain turns foggy. After 28, I'd pretty much just be on co-pilot.
Alusair Alustriel 8 years ago
I though the same. As I can admire his devotion and dedication, I wouldn't want him to do my surgery. 28 hours of doing something that requires your upmost concentration is devastating... And people who introduced laws permitting that should be sued.
Load More Replies... Captain Planet 8 years ago
I can't imagine working that long being good for his concentration and the health of his patient. I say this is worth no praise. But more an alarm bell. The more tired you are the more likeley you are to make mistakes and thus let patients die.
Marina Stanojevic 8 years ago
Alarming is what this is. Why does the medical establishment think they can perform life saving surgeries when they're sleep deprived? The FAA keeps strict tabs on the number of hours pilots and crew can fly as a matter of public safety. I don't understand why the AMA doesn't explore similar schedules?
Raluca Simiuc 8 years ago
In Romania a shift = 24 hours, starting from 6 am until the next day at 6 am. After that the same doctor who ended a 24 hour shift must also do the normal 8 hour/day programme. Which equals 32 hours of work with no sleep. Furthermore, the medical residents doing shifts are not even paid for shifts.
Muhammet Kartal 8 years ago
Same in Turkey. Furthermore being subjected to violence by patients and their relatives is not the rare case
Load More Replies... Ildiko S. 8 years ago
When it comes to doctors, we way too often accept if not demand such an enormous amount of working hours. Because, this is hwow it is, they should be devoted, I don't know exactly why. Could you imagine, if a company did the same to their office workers? Or actually, in any other place or positions? Everyone would consider it cruel and illegal. But when it comes to the surgeon: how cute! Terrible approach:S
Melody Lanzatella 8 years ago
I think that interns having such brutal schedules is just SO dumb! What better way to cause new doctors to make mistakes?! Especially when peoples lives hang in the balance! I have always thought this practice is SO irresponsible!!
Błażej Kopera 8 years ago
Photo of doctor Religa by James L. Stanfield, 1987 james-l-st...4dad98.jpg
Susan Davies 8 years ago
Definitely portrays hard work and dedication but I worry about anyone who works 28 hours straight, especially someone in a profession like surgery where there's little room for mistakes. Did the last patient get the same amount of dedicated attention to detail that the first patient got? There has long been a tendency of medical schools to schedule their residents and interns to work up to 48 hours with only a couple of meal breaks. Is this supposed to toughen them up for a hard career? It certainly seems like it's putting patients at risk. There's nothing heroic about working straight for 28 hours on complex emergency cases when you're losing focus and starting to drift off while you're working.
Melissa Brown 8 years ago
Where I live at doctors don't even show up to work and only see you for less than 5 mins when they do decide to show up. Different cultures.
Kikka io 8 years ago
I've worked in the operating room for ten years and I know what it means. I worked for 28 hours, because sometimes you have to do it and in the end you find yourself trying to steal a minute of sleep where you can do it. For example, if you happen to be available on a week-end, with no one to give you a change, stitch your teeth and work. I also happened to have slept for two days later when I got home.
Gillian Black 8 years ago
there always has to be doubters and faultfinders these people are dedicated and run on adrenalin he is the person I would want at my side if I was sick thank you for all you guys and women do your are real heros. and it is called sleep where you drop
Deirdre Jane Southworth 8 years ago
I know of a doctor who was found sleeping in a linen cupboard when he was exhausted !
Katinka Min 8 years ago
Yeah, let's make the people that cut around in our insides to save our lives work two days in a row. But make sure no truck driver will ever go beyond his allowed time frame!! Priorities, people!
Elizabeth Scarborough 8 years ago
Truck drivers are not allowed to drive more than 10 hours but Doctors can work and perform surgeries with a lack of sleep. Granted this is in China but I know many a new MD working hospital shifts just as long here in the US.
Susann Campbell 8 years ago
They sleep when they can, poor guy didn't make it to the sleeping room for Dr's , just too tired to travel across the Hospital and he is near the Surgery if needed.
Jan Virtue 8 years ago
WOW! What a Fantastic Mind, Skill and Will. AND, he performed them without difficulty and the Patients are doing Wonderfully! So, people talking about him operating on them, sleep deprivation and all that c**p - YOU'RE NOT A DOCTOR! You have no idea what type of training, will, mind and expertise this man has. Obviously, you're not on his level, NOR can you imagine it. Some people have no idea what it means to be ABOVE THE NORM. When you are, this is what you do, and more. Feebs.
Bertha Garcia 8 years ago
I think they meant the operation lasted 28 hours and not that he enter the operation 20 hours into his shift. Idk if you change surgeon in the middle of the operation.
Mateo Freolo 8 years ago
A lot of people don't see this side of medicine, especially in the hospital. Its not all Greys Anatomy and cute interactions; there's hours research and formulation. Nurses in hospitals work 12hour shifts, doctors work (typically in the US in the hospitals I work) 72 shifts on-call. Straight. They have teams and residents behind them also. The idea behind the longer hours is continuity of care for the patient. Handing off your patient to different people inherently looses information and time. I'm not saying that that it's not an outdated system, but patients come first. This doctor probably only had a few minutes between his next surgery case to take a quick nap. Most hospitals I've been in have call rooms and private kitchens for doctors. Believe me, they are taken care off. I work 12 hr shifts, there are days I need to put my head down to keep going. =]
Misha Marsha 8 years ago
Sue...for me better changed and give good suggestuon and effort..it is much better than sue...i have to do double task as some people said hosp staff is over load???i dont how true is that yes it make us tirwd and we cannot give good service as we cannot cope
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