sleep

"knits up the raveled sleave of care"
"the balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast" Macbeth, Shakespeare
"the food that cures all hunger, the water that quenches all thirst, the fire that warms the cold, the cold that cools the heart... the balancing weigh tthat levels the shepherd with the king, and the simple with the wise." Sancho Panza, Cervantes
"If an animal or person survives the injury, it sleeps." (Kreuger 2003)


/on npr
this american life episode 8/8/08
http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=361
sleep paralysis, "devil sitting on your chest": Mexico; along with hallucinations
[narcolepsy]
[REM behavior disorder]
[night terror, sleep walking]

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Michael Rack, MD
The number of pure sleep medicine jobs has decreased over the last several years, but there are some 100% sleep medicine jobs out there that are open to all the underlying sleep medicine specialties.
AASM website,
the sleep journals,
recruiting firms like locumtenens.com and MDJobsite.com.
starting your own sleep lab. ads in Sleep Review for companies that you can hire/partner with to assist in this process.
taking a psychiatry job with a hospital that has a sleep lab and make it a condition of your employment that you can read (and get paid for) the patients you refer to the lab.
Sleep forum on the Student Doctor Network for more ideas.