Mike Burke

Review of National Jewish Health

It has been such a frustrating experience with thi...

It has been such a frustrating experience with this place. They are always running behind schedule and just seem generally disorganized, you can't expect them to stay on top of anything. You have to take the lead and make sure everything gets pushed through with relentless follow-up and even that is difficult because you can never get through on the phone.

After meeting with sleep docs and taking 3 sleep studies over the course of 2 years, the docs say there is 95% chance I have narcolepsy and yet I'm no closer to an official diagnosis than the day I first walked in. I ended up getting medication for sleep apnea though another doctor, which helps me just make it though the day. It's sad that despite years of effort and thousands of dollars in medical bills, another doctor was able to offer me some kind of help when this place offered me absolutely none.

I will give props to the sleep techs, these people work their butts off on a never-ending list of sleep studies, practically never get to see the light of day and don't receive any credit for their work. You guys are truly the unsung heroes, but administrative people need to get their acts together and actual sleep docs need to get better at follow up. All I want is to not be exhausted literally all the time and I feel like I got no help at all from being a patient with you.