#12: Insomnia: Don’t be afraid of the dark

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science, Higher Education, Education

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🗓️ 29 August 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Do complaints of insomnia stress you out? Well, never fear. In this episode our guest is Dr. Karl Doghramji, Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Medicine and the Medical Director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. With his help we deconstruct the “dread pirate” insomnia (as I call it) so you can dominate it in your daily practice.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast.
0:22.5	The podcast that uses expert interviews to bring you clinical pearls and practice changing
0:26.9	knowledge.
0:27.9	Dr. Hose, Dr. Matthew Wato, here with my co-host, Dr. Paul Williams.
0:32.2	Hi, Paul.
0:33.2	Hi, Dr. Wato.
0:34.2	How are you?
0:35.9	I'm doing exceptionally well.
0:37.7	Thank you for joining me.
0:38.7	It's my pleasure as always.
0:40.4	Thanks for having me.
0:41.9	So I'm excited to introduce our guest for this episode.
0:45.8	Dr. Carl DeGromgie, he is a board certified physician in both psychiatry and sleep medicine.
0:52.6	He is a professor of psychiatry and human behavior who currently has a role as the director
0:57.8	of the Sleep Disorder Center at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.
1:05.3	This makes him highly qualified to talk to Paul and I about the topic of insomnia, which
1:12.0	is something that is pretty much rampant in internal medicine practice.
1:18.4	So I don't know about you, Paul, but I definitely found out a lot of things I was doing wrong
1:23.8	in talking to Dr. DeGromgie and I think it's going to be really helpful to our listeners.
1:28.2	Yeah, I know I agree.
1:29.2	I was going to make a joke about sleepless nights but then talk better of it.
1:32.8	But yeah, he's certainly educated me.
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