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Norma, In fact the same thing happened to me. When I began having symptoms I went to a friend- a neurologist- who sends me patients and I send them to her. She is a competent general neurologist. There were a number of complicating factors not the least of which was our friendship of many years which complicated the diagnostic process. When I continued to get worse and she was clearly emotionally over-involved (our kids were friends and she knew my wife quite well) I asked her whether she would prefer if I saw one of her partners. She jumped at the opportunity and set up an appointment with someone who I knew only professionally. He made the diagnosis on the first visit. I as a physician knew very little about PD- like most MD's not regularly involved with PD patients. My first reaction was how could it be - I was only 44 and did not have any sign of a tremor which I thought was necessary for the diagnosis of this old person's disease. The second neurologist treated me quite competently for about 3 years but as the illness progressed he- I think realized that my symptoms were getting out of the range of his comfort to treat me and sugggested a consultation at Rush-Presbyterian in Chicago. That gave me access to the research studies and the expertise he knew he didn't have. With both neurologists they knew what they didn't know and got me to people who did. I am greatful to both of them for that. Charlie -- ********************************************************** CHARLES T. MEYER, M.D. MADISON, WISCONSIN [log in to unmask] **********************************************************