Health: Sleep Deprived

I usually sleep no more than five or six hours a night. Between my jobs as a neurosurgeon, CNN correspondent, TIME contributor and new daddy, that's all I can afford. And frankly, it always seemed like enough. Sure, I might get a little tired by midafternoon, and I know that the experts recommend eight hours. But you can get a lot done in those extra two or three hours, especially when the rest of the world (not to mention the baby) is asleep. So when my CNN producers and I decided to put together a one-hour special on sleep, it seemed...

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