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This is so fucking weird. The primary impact of OSA is on the patient's health (hypertension leading to increased complications, increased of respiratory depression when combined with BZDs etc).
It's more like diabetes than epilepsy.
Now it's true that most patients hate the CPAP and try not to use the damn things so I "love" this from that perspective, but the overreach is absurd and if this becomes widely known people will just refuse sleep studies and STOP-BANG is by no means definitive (I love medical acronyms).
I do wonder if this is one of those "hey I heard about this shit online" or "my one relative..." type policies that will get evaporated with any public pressure.
I certainly hope so. It's possible it just hit home with me because I know someone personally, but maybe this actually is enforced infrequently
With this kind of thing it's very common for the policy to be misunderstood (or incorrect, or stupid) and for the people enforcing it to be idiots who feel they have no autonomy so they relentless (brainlessly) pursue something that isn't actually policy.
Happens in the hospital all the fucking time.
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