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I endorse that what you have stated. As a Parkie with fifteen years illness behind me, there are periods when I am unable to communicate properly; soft low voice this entails my CG that is to say my wife has to order for me when in a coffee shop. I wear hearing aids and have only twenty percent of normal hearing with the hearing aids eighty percent. It is a well known fact that people with hearing problems tend to speak rather loudly. I cannot speak loudly, any more and that is due to Parkinson's. My face is a perpetual mask I even frighten children on occasions. People that have no idea of what Parkinson is tend to dismiss the symptons. Most Practical GPs are not even familiar with Parkinson. One Doctor even told my wife that I should be in a "Loonie Bin," Hospital for mentally ill people. If the Doctors do not know about Parkinsonism then how are the general public to be expected to know or even cope with it. There should be much more campaigning to let the Public see what it means to be a Parkie. Having got that off of my chest I wish you all God Bless . Bern from Austria.