By Alon Y. Avidan MD MPH, Phyllis C. Zee MD PhD
This pocket-sized guide is a realistic advisor to the assessment and administration of sleep issues. it truly is written through amazing sleep drugs specialists and covers a wide, multidisciplinary diversity of themes in neurology, pulmonary medication, psychiatry and pediatrics.
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