Recent content by Faebinder

Mm... First I should say don't feel bad about the diagnosis, it's actually classic for men in their 30s and residents specifically to discover this as residency is the first time you have had medical insurance and can actually financially work up a medical complaint. Hopefully as you treat the...

OP, this stigma is the very same reason I have a guaranteed well paid job... embrace it. Find your joy in research, knowledge and everything outside the hospital.

To be marketable you'd need to do an icu fellowship else you're gonna be either doing 100% sleep or 100% anesthesia.

Most sleep specialists are reluctant to let go of their primary specialty because of the fear of the future. The future of the subspecialty is cloudy a bit but so was the future of many subspecialties in the past. We'll see.....

Sweet. Me too.

We just filled an unfilled position in our program about a week ago. I say this because I know who got the position and our program will select the person most dedicated to sleep medicine and I hope that's the case out there in other programs. Some resident/fellows don't appear really...

Read the article last week... Gotta love the title and I agree with every single statement and the meaning between the lines. If you dont want to get disenchanted with Sleep Medicine, stop thinking of it as OSA only. The problem is that everyone focuses on SRBD because it's common...

Too narrow and it's really mostly handled by psychiatry unless it's a parasomnia.

Same here: 1) Must be AASM eligible or certified. 2) It would be nice to know what insurance he/she takes. 3) Pictures of the devices he/she use most commonly (that way we can show the patients) and maybe even some stats about their success rates in resolving apneas.

It's a very stupid rule cause medicare and private insurances cost themselves more money with this requirement. We do a split night and that usually suffices.

So JACHO pretty much bypasses the AASM. Funny. Thanks for the heads up. I'll look for that part on the website.

MMmmm... well if the mill becomes unaccredit by the AASM, will it lose that many customers? What you are saying really changes the game if the insurances wont reimburse for non-accredited labs. You think they will do this soon or is this just talk? any links?

The apnea mills will get in trouble because their sleep studies wont be approved because they didn't take the time and find a reason to do the sleep study as opposed to the standard r/o OSA. Yes some mills will survive I am sure. I am curious as to what will happen to the half-hospital...

Basically, if you are a sleep apnea mill then you are in trouble. You need to be interested in what else is making the patient not sleep well.

From my stand point. So far it's been impossible to get anything in the NE that is sleep 100% or psychiatry and sleep combination. Wish I was not limited to the northeast. My co-fellow is a neuron and is having a much better luck but we aren't aiming at the same areas. I'm probably...