National Doctors' Day is a holiday in the United States. It is a holiday that honors doctors for the work they do for their, the communities they work in and for society as a whole. It is their hard work that keeps all of us healthy and this day thanks them for doing that for usour loved ones. The holiday started in 1933 in Winder, Georgia, and since then it's been honored every year on March 30, which was the first anniversary of a doctor using ether anesthesia (乙醚麻醉) by Dr. Crawford W. Long.
We give greeting cards to doctors, both alive and. The red carnation is also still popularly used to say "thank you" to doctors for their work in medicine.
Now when you need to see a doctor, surely you will want to see a good one. But there is one important thing you may never have thought about: Has your doctor rested enough?
Doctors in our country often have to work 34 hours or even (long) without sleep. Most of them work 104 hours a week, and some even 150. (There are only 168 hours a!) One report said that a doctor who works such long hours cannot think more (clear) than a drunk driver! Another found that doctors who sleep 5.8 fewer hours than the week before might make 22% more serious mistakes. Surely no one wants to get in a car that (drive) by a drunk driver. So, (多么) safe would you feel when you are under the care of a tired doctor?
Sadly this problem has been around for a long time. Thereno laws about it yet and hospital bosses don't look like they care, either. And that is why we doctors are asking you (join) us this Sunday, to discuss how to deal with this problem!
