NEURO CONSULT — r20261002s-1SERIES: NIGHT FLOATTHE EPILEPTOLOGIST
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Places I have slept in this hospital, ranked. 4. A call room bunk with a mattress the width of a door. 3. A chair in the family lounge, upright, for eleven minutes. 2. The floor of the EEG room, which is carpeted, which is luxury. 1. My car. Engine off, seat back, alarm set for twelve. Undefeated. Be honest: have you said this? send this to whoever knows which floor is carpeted

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Brief planned naps are an established fatigue-countermeasure strategy in shift work and are associated with improved alertness; naps kept short (around 20 minutes) limit sleep inertia on waking. Cultural observation otherwise; no clinical claim about any patient.

Established sleep-medicine guidance on short naps as a fatigue countermeasure and sleep inertia with longer naps.
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