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Joao Paulo.... See my reply interlaced within the body of your message, below. READ ON: ---------- From: PARKINSN: Parkinson's Disease - Information Exchange Network on behalf of Joao Paulo Carvalho Sent: Sunday, January 05, 1997 6:21 AM To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Subject: Re: MD Ignorance Or "Sugarcoating" Barbara Mallut wrote: > > In the 20 or so years I've had PD, viewed from where I am today, I can see > that the internal medicine and/or general MD's I've been to over the years > showed an abysmal lack of knowledge about PD. Beyond Sinemet, their lack of > PD drug awareness simply appeared to be nonexistent. Barb Big_Honey :-) ...as you usually do you put the finger in the wounds. I wish I had more then mere band-aids to put on all them wounds, tho... > There was a huge difference when I finally was seen by Dr. Iacono at Loma > Linda University School of Medicine, as HE is prolly one of this country's > pre-eminent movement disorder specialists. WHAT a difference that made in PD >> But here you let me in the air with this word prolly...I supose it means pioneer ? or similar word as long I can't find it in the Webster. Always happy to oblige... pre7em7i7nent or pre-em7i7nent (prj-hm9e-nent) adjective Superior to or notable above all others; outstanding. > I don't know as I see the MDs not "catching" all the problems inherent with > having PD. Personally, I simply think that most dismiss much of what they > read about or hear from their PD patients as being unimportant to not only > their patient's welfare but to the welfare of the greater PD community. I > believe there's a gross lack of sensitivity amongst the GENERAL medical > community to all the miserable subtle nuances of this disease (and truthfully, > that includes many other diseases, too). Unfortunately it's often that a > collection of those individual subtle nuances piled one on top of the other > within our respective bodies that makes our life so often rather tortured. > > It's that "no biggee" attitude frequently found amongst some MDs when they see > the PD patient who has come to them for relief of symptoms that drives me > nuts... because it IS a "biggee" when it's MY body. No one in this group EVER > dismisses anyone who needs to talk about their PD... not HERE. > Here I am lost again with yours "biggee" (any relation to big ? ). "Biggee" and "no biggee" are slang for "big," and "It's no problem." Now WHY "No biggee" mean "no problem," I couldn't tell ya. Just an oddity of the language, I guess. Barb Mallut "Lil_Honey" on the PD chat [log in to unmask] +----| Joao Paulo de Carvalho |------ + | [log in to unmask] | +--------| Salvador-Bahia-Brazil |------+