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Murray, This is not only occurring in the field of Neurology but in ALL fields of medicine. Just this past month, my friend with Multiple Sclerosis who was diagnosed in 1979, was told by her Family GP [ General Practitioner ] that she [the doctor] would no longer treat her because she is changing her practice and will no longer treat patients with "chronic diseases". CHRONIC DISEASES ! Does that mean doctors will only treat "well" patients or those who have not been diagnosed with a disease yet??? This doctor went on to explain that patients who have "chronic diseases" are usually under a specialists care and she does not want to "interfere" with that ongoing care. [B.S. can you say $$$$] Well what happens when a Parkie or a MS'er gets the flu ? To this she replied, "Well that doesn't happen too often". [Good News to Parkies, eh, did you know that? ] This is a serious problem. Doctors are already starting to refuse to accept or treat patients on Medicare because the Medicare reimbursement is always lower that the doctor charges patients for their time [ so they loose money for every Medicare patient they see]. Also doctors are not seeing their patients in the hospitals anymore but will pick up care after you have been discharged. So while you are the most ill, you will be treated by staff physicians and residents who don't know you or your medical history. Ok, that's enough for now...I'll get off my soap box and get a cup of coffee. Gail Vass ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn