Yatin J. Patel, MD
Board-Certified Pulmonary & Sleep Physician, Author & Speaker
For thirty years (1994–2024), Yatin J. Patel, MD, helped patients in Goshen, Indiana, improve their health, sleep, and quality of life through pulmonary and sleep medicine, caring for individuals with sleep apnea and other sleep disorders. Now retired from clinical practice, he is a physician, author, and speaker passionate about making complex health topics understandable, practical, and relatable.
- Board-Certified in Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine
- Diplomate, American Board of Sleep Medicine
- 30 Years in Clinical Practice (1994–2024)
- Founder & Medical Director, Sneeze & Snooze Clinic
- Founder, Center for Sleep Studies at Goshen Hospital
- Author of 3 Books, including CPAP Is Sexy (Nov 3, 2026)
- Executive MBA, Magna Cum Laude, University of Notre Dame
- Volunteer Physician, Remote Area Medical
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Yatin J. Patel, MD, has spent more than thirty years helping people get their sleep — and their lives — back.
The son of a Gujarati novelist, he grew up in a small village in western India, watching his father write and rewrite manuscripts by hand for readers who were few and far between. That quiet persistence shaped both the physician and the writer he would become. He began his career providing primary care to a rural community in Gujarat, then immigrated to the United States, trained in internal medicine at Englewood Hospital Medical Center – a Mount Sinai program – where he served as Chief Resident, and completed his pulmonary and sleep medicine fellowship at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. During his training, he developed a lifelong passion for helping patients with sleep apnea, sleep breathing disorders, and other sleep disorders improve their health and quality of life.
In 1994, he settled in Goshen, Indiana – a small town in the heart of Amish country – and founded the Sneeze & Snooze Clinic, starting with a single sleep study in a borrowed stress-test room. It grew into a thirty-person practice and an Center for Sleep Studies at Goshen Hospital. During the same years, he served as an interventional pulmonologist at the Center for Cancer Care, where he built a lung-cancer screening program for high-risk patients. Across three decades as a sleep physician and pulmonary specialist, he and his team helped thousands of patients – factory workers and farmers, truck drivers and teachers, skeptics and believers – overcome sleep apnea, restore healthy sleep, and discover what real restorative rest feels like.
He is the creator of the AEI∞ Framework (pronounced “A-E-I infinity”), a model for how genuine alertness restores emotional intelligence, sharpens information intelligence, and opens the door to a life of selfless service and spiritual depth. He earned his Executive MBA, magna cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame, where he was mentored by Father Theodore Hesburgh, who knew him simply as “the little sleep doc from Goshen.”
After a young patient’s drowsy-driving tragedy, he founded the nonprofit Stay Awake, Drive Safe in 2000, sending drowsy-driving warnings to schools, colleges, and employers before major travel holidays. Today, he volunteers as a physician with Remote Area Medical, providing care to people who have nowhere else to turn.
He is the author of “Sleep Well, Lead Well”, “Deeper Sleep, Richer Life: Sleep Doc’s 200 Pearls for Females”, and “CPAP Is Sexy: How Treating Sleep Apnea Restores Energy, Intimacy, and Life”- his most personal book yet.
Dr. Patel lives in Potomac, Maryland, with his wife, Dipti. When he isn’t writing or volunteering, he spends his time with family and grandchildren, spiritual study, nature, meditation, and vegetarian cooking — and reports that well-rested grandchildren demand significantly more sweets.
A Message from Dr. Patel
I trained in pulmonary and sleep medicine at Marshall University, in Huntington, West Virginia. That gave me the science. My patients gave me the rest – and the rest is most of it.
For thirty years, I practiced in an exam room in Goshen, Indiana – corn fields and Amish buggies out the window, where factory workers clock out at dusk and farmers rise before dawn. They called me the “Little Sleep Doc.” Five foot five, a hundred and thirty pounds. I earned the title.
Those patients taught me what no fellowship could: what steals sleep, what brings it back, and what it actually takes to get someone to wear the machine.
Here’s the most important thing they taught me. The reason most people resist treatment isn’t the diagnosis. It’s that nobody ever told them what was waiting on the other side.
There’s a version of you your family hasn’t seen in years – the energy, the patience, the presence, the spark.
He’s not gone. She’s not gone.
They’re just not sleeping.
That’s what this book is about. Not the disease you might prevent someday. The life you can have tonight.
If that sounds like you, or like someone you love, start with the first chapter. It’s free, and it’s the same place I start with every patient who walks into my clinic swearing they’re fine.
Your spark is waiting to come back.
Yatin J. Patel, MD
Author of CPAP Is Sexy
Board-Certified Pulmonary & Sleep Physician
Why This Book
Today – Not Someday
For thirty years, I watched the same thing happen. A patient would be diagnosed with sleep apnea, handed a machine, and given a list of everything it might prevent someday. Then they’d go home and never use it.
I understood why.
Fear of someday doesn’t get anyone to wear a mask tonight.
What works is the opposite. Not the disease you’re avoiding, but the life you get back: the energy, the focus, the patience, the desire to be close to the people you love. Sleep apnea quietly steals all of it. Restorative sleep is the foundation that brings it back, and CPAP therapy is one of the most effective ways to get there.
Sleep apnea is one of the most common conditions I treated during my career – and one of the most overlooked, especially in women, whose symptoms often don’t match the textbook description. It’s also highly treatable.
That gap – between how treatable this condition is and how many people are still living exhausted – is why I wrote this book.
I wrote it the same way I spoke to patients in the exam room: with real stories, practical answers, and a promise that what’s waiting on the other side is worth it.
The stories, the science, and the path back to your spark.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Is Dr. Yatin J. Patel still seeing patients?
No. Dr. Patel retired from clinical practice in 2024 after thirty years as a sleep doctor in Goshen, Indiana, where he founded the Sneeze & Snooze Clinic. He now writes, speaks, and volunteers with Remote Area Medical. For sleep concerns, please talk with your own doctor or a board-certified sleep specialist.
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What books has Dr. Yatin J. Patel written?
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