Help Some Grad Students From UCLA

Whoo hoo!!! Here's the chance to let these grad students know your opinion of the sleep profession today as you have experienced it!!

There's a link to a survey at apneasupport.com's forum and the survey allows for a "Comments" section as well as the survey questions.

http://www.apneasupport.org/viewtopic.php?t=19044

Thanks, Slinky! Wanting to do a really good job and make my comments count, I did a little research first, looking for tips on how to be really convincing, get my points across well, etc. If anybody's interested, here's a good site (although I do suspect that several here have already read it): http://www.digitalroom.net/index2.html (in the "Latest News" list, select the article that was filed on August 3, 2001, then select "How to Win an Argument.")


Marsha

Songbird wrote:I did a little research first, looking for tips on how to be really convincing, get my points across well, etc.
Marsha

Actually, that will consist of clicking on yes or no for about 10 questions

Yeah, but did you take the time to make some comments???

Thanks, Marsha, for the hints on improving our comments to get our point(s) across.

Slinky wrote:Thanks, Marsha, for the hints on improving our comments to get our point(s) across.

I did make a couple of comments, but was not inspired by the depth or quality of the survey, and it certainly is not geared toward gathering any detail whatever, so long narratives are not exactly what they're looking for, I think. Oh well.

I did it as well; and also found it unsatisfying in the sense of where was any depth or what was even the focus of the survey?

The authors are MBA students....

J

So what? This is a chance to suggest improvements to the sleep evaluation and titration studies practices and for that matter all aspects of sleep medicine from the patients' viewpoint. SOMEONE has SOME interest, they're asking for your opinion of what you experienced ...

If they really wanted my opinions, they would find this forum and post the link here.

And I did fill out the survey. I am not knocking the students.

I would be interested in how they are going to use the survey....I didn't see any blurb on that.

Although, whether gel bothered me, or whether my ledes stayed on are not the depth of input I anticipated. Although, yes, could be issues for others.

For me at this point, the more broken/frustrating part of the system is what comes after or beyond the sleep study. My recent sleep study was great and produced results that helped me, finally, after having sleep and SDB issues for over 30 years. And being blown off even 20 years ago when I went to doc specifically for sleep/fatigue issues.

Interest is good. I participated.

J

Well Slinky,

Did the survey but at the end had to add a US zip code in so gave em a Seattle one.



DSM

Good thinking, dsm!

Uh, what's the point of this?

These are MBA students working on a class exercise. I don't see how this is going to affect the sleep apnea INDUSTRY at all.
B.

Babette wrote:Uh, what's the point of this?

These are MBA students working on a class exercise. I don't see how this is going to affect the sleep apnea INDUSTRY at all.
B.

Well let’s see … when they graduate, they get big salary CEO jobs and when they run the industry into the ground they can ask taxpayers for billion dollar bailouts. Isn’t that what MBA stands for … More Bailouts America?

Right on, DreamStalker!!!!!