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HI Rhonda... While I can't help ya with an ADA attorney, I DID Have a unilateral (one side) pallidotomy (the surgery you're referring to, I believe) in Oct. 1994, with great relief of PD symptoms - a total success, as far as I'm concerned. Dr .Robert Iacono of Loma Linda University School of Medicine assisted Dr Gary Heit of Stanford School of Medicine performed the surgery. Dr .Heit was on a fellowship at Loma Linda to learn Dr .Iacono's surgical procedure, I cannot speak highly enough of both neurosurgeons and Dr .Iacono's fine surgical team at Loma Linda. Please keep in mind, tho, that the surgery - any PD surgery - is NOT a cure for the disease.. It does, however, offer symptomatic relief in most cases. Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] --------- From: Parkinson's Information Exchange on behalf of FRITZ-CRAWFORD, RHONDA J. Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 9:52 AM To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN List Folks, I'm new to this so I'm going to introduce myself by explaining that my brother-in-law was diagnosed with PD about 13 years ago. He asked me to subscribe to this group for him. The one question he really needs help on right now is finding a ADA attorney in the Dallas area. I personally would like to know if anyone has heard anything about the Loma Linda Team at the Loma Linda University Medical Center in Calif. ? They are surgically deadening a few of the cells in the critically over stimulated pathways, the basis for PVP pallidotomy. I have heard that about 90% of the surgical patients have been relieved of 90% of their symptoms. Thanks