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Article: DOCS FAILING TO TREAT SLEEP PROBLEMS? INSOMNIA SHORTENS LIVES, IS OVERLOOKED IN PRIMARY CARE.(FRONT)
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- The Capital Times
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- October 13, 2007
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Byline: ANITA WEIER The Capital Times
Madison hospitals have opened free-standing sleep centers to help residents who can't sleep, but local and national experts say many patients, especially the elderly, do not receive treatment for sleep problems because of a communication gap with primary care doctors.
Dr. Kathryn Middleton, a sleep specialist at the new St. Mary's Hospital Sleep Center on Index Road in Fitchburg, said it is important both that patients bring up sleep issues and that primary care doctors ask about them.
"Patients sometimes think this is how they are supposed to feel, and they think it is not important enough to tell their ...