Overview: Importance of Recognizing and Treating Insomnia

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In medical school and afterward, psychiatrists and primary care physicians alike receive very little information about sleep disorders and sleep-related problems. Physicians themselves say that they need more information on sleep disorders. A Medscape primary care survey1asked physicians, " In your experience, which of the following is the largest barrier to the optimal and timely management of sleep disturbances?"