2016年CRI Boss Need to Send Employees on Abnormal Shift to Return Home: Expert

 

"Rise with the lark¹ and go to bed with the lamb"--- This poetic² quote is from English poet and novelist Nicholas Breton. Later, it has been used many times as a warning for the necessity to respect people's biological clock. 

Allan Pack is a famous researcher on sleep disorder³ at the University of Pennsylvania. 

He has recently arrived in Beijing for a sleep medicine forum⁴. At the forum, he mentioned employers need to be considerate in transporting their employees on abnormal shift back home when they finish work.

He cited a program particularly targeting medical staff in the US as an example:

"[What] the medical residency programs in the US have done is, one of the real dangers from doctors who I've talked to about that is that drive home in the morning. They've been up forever; they're very, very sleepy. Now they're driving home and they can have crashes when they're driving home. And some of these programs have a lot of shift workers, what they do is they transport them to home."

In addition to medical workers, a number of other occupations also demand people work outside normal hours, including taxi drivers, journalists, security service staff and so on. 

At the end of April this year, the CBS News published a new research finding showing rotating night shift work may take a toll⁵ on women's hearts.

The study found that female nurses who had a history of working night shifts in conjunction with daytime shifts had a slightly higher risk of coronary heart disease than those who did not.

In reality, working overnight means a long-time sleep loss in some sense, which may lead to insomnia⁶ as well as an increased risk of health problems. And those who work abnormal hours or had done so were found to score lower for memory, speed of processing information and overall brainpower than participants who had never done so.

Evidence given at the forum suggests that people with insomnia have a three-fold risk of developing depression compared with those who sleep well.

This leads Allan Pack to make another proposal for the employer: 

"Some of the issues for the company is what is the right shift, because certain shifts and how you rotate them have bigger effects than others, and there are tools out there, computational tools, that allow you to design the shifts and try to minimize the degree of sleepiness, so that's one thing they could do."

Dr. Pack's clinical expertise⁷ is in sleep disorders⁸ with a particular focus on diagnosis⁹ and management of obstructive sleep apnea. According to the website of Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania,he is internationally recognized for his expertise in this area and has been listed in the Best Doctor's in the United States by the Philadelphia magazine.

He came to Beijing for a two-day forum co-organized by his university and a Center of Excellence¹⁰ in Sleep Medicine with Peking University in the People's Hospital. 

The Center is co-directed by Dr. Fang¹¹ Han, a professor of Sleep Medicine at PKU and Dr. Allan Pack, Penn's Chief of Sleep Medicine. The professors are both presidents of their respective countries' national sleep research societies.

For Studio Plus, I'm Wang Lei.

1 lark   

n.云雀，百灵鸟；n.嬉戏，玩笑；vi.嬉戏

参考例句：

• He thinks it cruel to confine a lark in a cage.他认为把云雀关在笼子里太残忍了。
• She lived in the village with her grandparents as cheerful as a lark.她同祖父母一起住在乡间非常快活。

2 poetic   

adj.富有诗意的，有诗人气质的，善于抒情的

参考例句：

• His poetic idiom is stamped with expressions describing group feeling and thought.他的诗中的措辞往往带有描写群体感情和思想的印记。
• His poetic novels have gone through three different historical stages.他的诗情小说创作经历了三个不同的历史阶段。

3 disorder   

n.紊乱，混乱；骚动，骚乱；疾病，失调

参考例句：

• When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后，他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
• It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。

4 forum   

n.论坛，讨论会

参考例句：

• They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
• The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。

5 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。

6 insomnia   

n.失眠，失眠症

参考例句：

• Worries and tenseness can lead to insomnia.忧虑和紧张会导致失眠。
• He is suffering from insomnia.他患失眠症。

7 expertise   

n.专门知识(或技能等)，专长

参考例句：

• We were amazed at his expertise on the ski slopes.他斜坡滑雪的技能使我们赞叹不已。
• You really have the technical expertise in a new breakthrough.让你真正在专业技术上有一个全新的突破。

8 disorders   

n.混乱( disorder的名词复数 )；凌乱；骚乱；（身心、机能）失调

参考例句：

• Reports of anorexia and other eating disorders are on the increase. 据报告，厌食症和其他饮食方面的功能紊乱发生率正在不断增长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The announcement led to violent civil disorders. 这项宣布引起剧烈的骚乱。 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 diagnosis   

n.诊断，诊断结果，调查分析，判断

参考例句：

• His symptoms gave no obvious pointer to a possible diagnosis.他的症状无法作出明确的诊断。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做一次彻底的调查分析。

10 excellence   

n.优秀，杰出，(pl.)优点，美德

参考例句：

• His art has reached a high degree of excellence.他的艺术已达到炉火纯青的地步。
• My performance is far below excellence.我的表演离优秀还差得远呢。

11 fang   

n.尖牙，犬牙

参考例句：

• Look how the bone sticks out of the flesh like a dog's fang.瞧瞧,这根骨头从肉里露出来，象一只犬牙似的。
• The green fairy's fang thrusting between his lips.绿妖精的尖牙从他的嘴唇里龇出来。