As I go around and set up people on CPAP machines, I am always struck by the fact that sleep labs miss the opportunity to educate patients about what CPAP is, what goals of therapy are attainable, and how CPAP may help improve their sleep. In over a year, I have yet to have a patient tell me that the sleep lab told them anything about what they ...

USA Today is again running a story they have been following for a while. The title: ''Hunt is on for overseas college students'' (Marklein, 2011). Some things just upset me more than most. Usually they have to do with politics or ignorance, but this one puts a burr in my saddle because I am a college student and respiratory therapist, and I know ...