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Here! here! David......time for another of your tales.  Humour is so
important to us all.

regards from wet old Norfolk,
Emma


>Probably a misleading title but it leads me into something which has been
>concerning me more and more in recent weeks as a result of reading messages
>on this list.This was brought to a head by a recent posting from Berbado who
>seems to have got himself and I hope I don't sound too critical thoroughly
>confused on the subject of medication which is let's face it probably the
>most important and potentially rewarding subjects dealt with on the list and
>yet because of its mainly anecdotal character one of the hardest to evaluate.
>
>What is certainly evident is that the bulk of advice contributions come from
>subscribers who have had PD for several years or their PD is particularly
>severe and also a lot of requests for advice are re worst case
>scenarios.This I believe tends inevitably to promote an unbalanced view of
>the disease because there is no input from the thousands and thousands of
>sufferers who could be jogging along quite happily without any of the awful
>side effects mentioned so frequently.If you look at the results from
>independent clinical trials it is evident that the incidence of particular
>side effects are much less prevalent than would appear to be indicated by
>list 'gossip'
>
>Also in the list one tends to hear  most noise from or about pd people with
>difficult or intractible problems.
>
>Having said all this I still think the list is great and required reading
>for anybody seriously interested in this baffling disease but although  in
>the past I have been active in promulgating its merits to the 'unconverted'
>I am beginning to wonder whether there should be a 'HEALTH
>WARNING'--'Reading this might confuse you and seriously damage your peace of
>mind.Access denied to anxiety prone people'And when somebody from a National
>PD organization said to me recently 'No we are not keen on giving out
>information about the Internet as we have no control on what appears and
>might appear to be endorsing the views or information put forward' I began
>to wonder whether she was making some sort of valid point.?
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