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
