Hi Donna. I'd be interested to know more about your friend, if he would permit you to share details. *Not* to build a case against pallidotomies, but simply to get another perspective. Thanks. Joanna On Tue, 14 Mar 1995, MS D J KIPP wrote: > -- [ From: Donna Kipp * EMC.Ver #2.10P ] -- > > I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I think that many people ( > including myself) have unrealistic hopes and maybe a deaf ear to the > downside of the Palliodotomy. We only seem to hear the positive. A > friend of mine recently (last month) had a bilateral palliodotomy by > Dr. Iacono at Loma Linda and he has had no improvement at all. In fact > he feels he is worse off. >