Health

The Family That Can’t Sleep

Sleep is vital to health. What if you couldn’t sleep?

Michael Hunter, MD
7 min readSep 4, 2020

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Photo by Kate Stone Matheson on Unsplash

What would happen if you could not sleep? We begin with the story of a family in Venice, Italy. Members suffer from an inherited condition, one that appears in middle age. In a phrase, they have their sleep stolen from them, developing holes in their brains and ultimately leading to their…

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Michael Hunter, MD

I have degrees from Harvard, Yale, and Penn. I am a radiation oncologist in the Seattle area. You may find me regularly posting at www.newcancerinfo.com