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Re: Now it all adds up

Posted by D.H. on December 06, 2007 at 19:48:36:

In Reply to: Now it all adds up posted by rimby on December 05, 2007 at 21:23:50:

For thousands of years, medicine have studied patients who were awake and cadavers. It is is only within the last sixty that anybody paid attention to patients who are asleep.

Furthermore, sleep tests are very expensive, so insurance companies would rather not promote them.

The number of people who are diagnosed with SA is gradually (but steadily) growing. Eventually, it will hit critical mass.

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