the next Manhattan A.W.A.K.E. meeting will be a good one, guaranteed.  Please join us -- free and open to the public: Mask Fit & Comfort Clinic at Manhattan A.W.A.K.E. Licensed respiratory professionals from Classic SleepCare will be conducting a Mask Fit & Comfort Clinic at this Manhattan A.W.A.K.E...

Meetup.com was sufficiently impressed by the size and quality of the NYC Manhattan A.W.A.K.E. Sleep Apnea Support Group to feature it on its home page today (bottom right thumbnail) http://api.ning.com/files/Pachr88RKXrNeDp2K3IjDHjQDlZYSNWWGfEZP*JMocOaN2Qdo6kdFPWeXTv9tYnDg3-JL2FrDw6DGq8*5j79cMdyYksX...

Just a reminder not to miss tonight's Manhattan A.W.A.K.E. meeting if you're in the NYC area .  We will have Dr. Jordan Stern as our guest, a Board certified Sleep physician and ENT surgeon who has founded a one-of-a-kind comprehensive Sleep Apnea center in NYC called BlueSleep. Details as follows: ...

For everyone in the NYC area, I highly recommend next week's Manhattan A.W.A.K.E. meeting. Dr. Jordan Stern of the BlueSleep clinic will be on-hand to discuss his innovative approach to the diagnosis and treatment of Sleep Apnea. Dr. Stern is innovative in that he has multiple specialists in-house -...

for anyone interested, the audio replay is now available at http://sypark.audioacrobat.com/download ... afc0b7.mp3 and a lively discussion about patient advocacy issues is developing at http://www.sleepguide.com/forum/topics/ ... -promotion

I've also posted the meeting materials to New York City Sleep Apnea Support Group, or http://www.ManhattanAwake.org. So if you want to dig into what happened at last night's meeting, it should be easy to do. Enjoy!

gratified to hear that people who come to the New York City A.W.A.K.E. meetings are getting something out of them. should anyone wish to join the Manhattan A.W.A.K.E. mailing list, they can do so by signing up using the form on http://www.ManhattanAwake.org -- there's also a full calendar of events ...

Uncle_Bob wrote:Its been 4 hours now and i'm still waiting for the validation email

I just set all the users in "pending" state to "active" so you should be able to login now. I do wonder whether what happened was that the activation link got stuck in your email's Spam filter.

While those POSTS are quite common here, I don't think you can infer that is the norm. Who posts a rant about a GOOD experience? It's a "silent majority" thing. Also, I think it's a mistake to have anonymous reviews/evaluations. I put a lot more stock in a statement someone is accountable for. (Eve...

we've noticed that the overwhelming majority of reviews have been positive so far. Very few negative reviews. That was unexpected.

The more patient input and help for one another the better, I say. The more info, the more valuable that site will become. jeff I see that a common thread on the forums, including cpaptalk, is frustration over the incompetence and mistreatment we patients suffer at the hands of sleep professionals....

thank you fadedgirl. we review restaurants and bars online -- and you know what -- I can find a pretty decent burger thanks to that. why NOT review doctors, DMEs and sleep labs online?

California girl, you point out the chicken-and-egg problem I mentioned in my first post about SleepSearch.com -- the site at http://www.SleepSearch.com has the potential to fill exactly the need you describe -- finding a doctor who's "not stupid" -- problem is, without folks like you and me writing ...

Here's an example review: http://sleepsearch.com/providers/15555 You can be as anonymous as you want -- what we're going for is authenticity -- we don't care what your name is. To remain anonymous, just don't put your real name in the "Screen Name" when you use the sign up form (http://sleepsearch.c...

hope you guys will not view this as SPAM, but for the potentially valuable resource it can be for you and others that get diagnosed with Sleep Apnea: I've been developing http://www.SleepSearch.com as a tool to help people find the good eggs in the field of Sleep Medicine, and avoid the bad eggs. BU...