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At 08:56 PM 10/5/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I just received a phone call from my brother-in-law's sister-in-law,
>Dawn.  Dawn has a friend, a 70-year old woman, who is showing some
>symptoms of Parkinson's...muscle rigidity, slowness of movement, lack of
>facial expression, soft voice.  (Dawn is a nurse but hasn't worked for a
>number of years.)  The 70-year old went to her family doctor who told her
>it probably wasn't Parkinson's because there was little or no tremor AND
>that it didn't matter anyway because the woman is TOO OLD to be treated
>for pd!  So, Dawn phoned to find out if this were true.  I said NO.  Have
>you ever heard anything so foolish?
>
>So, after getting a new family doctor, she needs to know the name of a
>good neurologist with experience with pd.  The woman lives in Sherbrooke,
>Quebec but is willing & able to travel as far as Montreal.  Language
>isn't a problem... any suggestions?
>
>Barb
>
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>Barbara Patterson                               [log in to unmask]
>HSC 2J22                                        905-525-9140, ext. 22403
>                        School of Nursing
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> BARB you know i am 74/30  i got one of the best in ohio  a newbe at 70 he
can help but not at time i have had it. all he says DON all i can do for
you is keep you fungicidal a sane.  am sorry she is so far away. please
keep looking.

                                        I.Y.Q   DON & VIVIAN