Hypnotic Drugs

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SLEEP disturbance is a common problem. Insomnia ("hyposomnia" would be more precise) is, in the style of Lewis Carroll's Humpty Dumpty, "just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less" (i.e., if a patient believes himself to be getting too little sleep, or sleeping too lightly, and feels "tired" the next morning because of this, he suffers from insomnia). The physician may have a different standard – he may sleep two hours less a night than the patient and consider the patient fortunate! – and, of course, may choose to manage patients depending on his assessment of . . .

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