How many more physicians will we lose to suicide?

[HuckleB]

19. Yeah, I went back to grad school at 33.

I don't think I slept much as an undergrad, and I worked jobs where graveyard shifts and double shifts were the norm, but at 33, my body was not going along with that, any more. I developed one heck of a coffee habit to get through.

It's funny, though, my dad was a construction worker turned contractor, and I saw the physical toll it took on his body by his early 40s. He realized it, too, and while he had me work my butt off for him on job sites in my teens, he pushed me to make sure I went to college. He didn't want me to go through what he had. While I recognized his physical decline, and took that to heart, I didn't transfer that knowledge to other ways of abusing my body.

We are still trying to figure out how to incorporate electric light and screens into our lives, as well. There are so many factors that reek havoc on our sleep patterns in this era.