Dr. Klein: Sleep Apnea has been noticed for hundreds of years, but was not paid its due respect in the medical profession until more recently. In the 1800’s Charles Dickens wrote of an overweight young gentleman who would fall asleep while standing. Dickens’s book was.” The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”. Early in the 1900’s a brilliant physician, Sir William Osler, coined the term Pickwikian for people who were excessively tired during the day due to this condition. .Today we know how
dangerous this condition is.
