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Dear Bev, Barb, Susan and others, Thanks for your responses. The fact remains that after going all the way to Loma Linda last fall for a workup and getting a surgery date for early April, they just received a form cancellation letter from Dr. I. bearing no explanation and referring them to other surgeons. When, in justifiable distress, they called Loma Linda, they were given the run around and then, finally, when their desperation touched the individual from the Iacono team who was on the line, the individual grudgingly volunteered the information that Dr. Iacono's contract had not been renewed by Loma Linda which necessitated the cancellation. I do not wish to supply names on either side but this family would have no motive that I can think of to fabricate such a story. I got my friend Tony on the line but he disavowed any knowledge of the cancellation or trouble with Loma Linda. That irregularities do happen, I know from direct experience. We've been trying to get a discharge letter since Aviva's bilateral pallidotomy over a year ago since one is occasionally requested by the various specialists who treat Aviva. While this has been promised many times, the letter has yet to be forthcoming. I doubt, somehow, that we're going to get an adequate explanation for that cancellation letter but if anyone on the list is close enough to the situation to unearth one, the disappointed family would like to hear it and so would I. That, notwithstanding, I am glad to hear that Dr. Iacono is still in business since he does important, life-saving work. Best, David