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To the Editor: In her Medical News & Perspectives story, Ms Lamberg¹ described some ongoing research about sleep deprivation among medical residents. An Irish proverb says, "A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book." In this age in which preventive medicine is beginning to take hold and where we begin to see that the health of societies lies less with mechanical hearts than with simple preventive health measures, it becomes important that we physicians follow our own advice.

Patients may actually do best to make themselves as unlike their physicians as they can. While their physician works in a stressful, sleepless world, patients should learn to relax and get plenty of rest. Unlike their physician who doesn't have the time to exercise much, patients should exercise long, hard, and intensely each day. While their physician grabs quick fast food in a rushed day, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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