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I believe surgeons, dentists, and people who do similar small-scale hands-on work, like precision soldering, avoid coffee, because it makes for shaky (but alert!) hands. There are likely enough others that I'm not thinking of.
I see plenty of this every day. Medical heroism doesn’t count. That’s just part of your Starfleet duty.