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PD, said my son's best friend Cyrus is something which to cure i'm desirous it wont take too much urgin' to become a neuro surgeon but what if its cause is a virus? > btw, my son has a friend Cyrus, who is in first year pre-med with the intention of becoming a neurosurgeon! hilary blue William Harshaw wrote: > > If the good Doctor Chris is both correct and right in stating with > considerable vigour and force that neurosurgery is the only way to go > as palliation for Parkinson's Disease pending the discovery of the > causes(s) and the development of cures, then every Parkinson's Disease > Advocacy Group should be lobbying their legislators in every political > subdivision, be it city, state, province, nation to: > > 1. provide adequate funding to establish the infrastructure > that a functional neurosurgeon requires > > 2. provide a congenial environment fir them to work in > > 3. this problem - the shortage of functional nurosurgeons - is > not amenable to a short-term fix. It will take years to end the > shortage. The University Health Network and the Toronto Western > Hospital have established the first ever endowed chair in Functional > Neurosurgery - The Ronald R. Tasker Chair - abd it will be held by Dr. > Andres M. Lozano. Together with the Jack ClarkChair in Parkinson's > Disease Research , also at U of T , Toronto's reputation as a world > class centre for PD research should be firmly cemented > > hospitals must permitand encourage surgical residents to elect > neurosurgey as a specialty and functional neurosurgery as a > subspecialty. > > The screams of protest when the FDA approves DBS and the long > waiting time is too horrible to contemplate > >