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I haven't even been able to see Dr. Avidan thanks to UCLA's bureaucracy. I've been trying for a month to figure out what I need to do to get a sleep study scheduled, to no avail. I've had two doctors send in referrals (one of which UCLA claims to have not received), and I've just been given a runaround, being told different things almost every time I call. They don't call back when they say they will, and they aren't even themselves aware of what needs to be done to get a sleep consultation and then a sleep clinic (I'd been told by one person that I could schedule with someone at UCLA and get a referral to a sleep consultation, so I finally asked if I could do that, since they didn't like that my doctor's referral said it was for a sleep STUDY not CONSULTATION, and they also wanted my doctor to dig through his records to prove he'd consulted with me for a sleep disorder (all he does is prescribe me sleeping pills because I can't sleep; he's not a sleep specialist, so the requested records don't really exist). I was told by this latest idiot with UCLA that she could schedule me to see a general neurologist to try to get a referral but that then I would then be back to "square one." I asked repeatedly what that means, and she didn't know because she's "not a doctor."). I asked them to please just call my doctor and explain what it is they need MULTIPLE times, since it isn't totally clear, but they keep failing to do that (last idiot said she'd make a "notation" to have someone call him...which means it is never going to happen). One person at one point told me they don't have a form he could just fill out, and another told me they did. Who knows. It doesn't help that the sleep study division is separate from the sleep consultation division, so it's a typical fragmented bureaucracy with idiot #1 never knowing what idiot #2 is doing or saying. Save yourself the time and schedule with a private practice. I wish I'd done that in the first place, as I could have had a sleep consultation on calendar less than two weeks from now. Now, I'll have to wait another month at least thanks to UCLA giving me the runaround forever.

We traveled to see Dr. Avidan from San Diego at the advice of our primary care physician who indicated that he is the most knowledgeable authority on RBD on the West Coast. We were not disspointed!

Professional and highly competent.

Returned phone call about my test result 4 days after I completed it. Very informative, took time to explain the data which was something that none of my previous sleep doctors did. He was more interested in getting to the bottom of my diagnosis as opposed to just doing more tests