diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
index eada65505f..21e7a56670 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
@@ -341,6 +341,9 @@ jobs:
         env:
           NEXTEST_RETRIES: 3
         run: |
+          #nextest does not yet support running doctests
+          cargo test --doc $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES
+
           for io_engine in std-fs tokio-epoll-uring ; do
             NEON_PAGESERVER_UNIT_TEST_VIRTUAL_FILE_IOENGINE=$io_engine ${cov_prefix} cargo nextest run $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES
           done
diff --git a/libs/utils/src/poison.rs b/libs/utils/src/poison.rs
index 0bf5664f47..27378c69fc 100644
--- a/libs/utils/src/poison.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/poison.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 //!  # Example
 //!
 //!  ```
-//!  # tokio_test::block_on(async {
+//!  # tokio::runtime::Builder::new_current_thread().enable_all().build().unwrap().block_on(async {
 //!  use utils::poison::Poison;
 //!  use std::time::Duration;
 //!