Sleep loss affects how paramedics and health-care workers respond to patients' feelings

A lack of sleep affects people's ability to feel for others. Sleep deprivation and emotional fatigue can hit anyone, but first responders and health-care workers are especially vulnerable due to shift work, long hours and the overall stressful nature of their jobs.

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