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^^^^^^ WARM GREETINGS FROM ^^^^^^^^^^^^ :-) Ivan Suzman 49/39/36 [log in to unmask] :-) Portland, Maine land of lighthouses 70 deg. F :-) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is a controversial message- but it is necessary for me to get this off my chest. I take issue with the PAN Petition's accuracy. Numbers are VERY important. Why is the PWP number only 1,000,000 in the Petition? I think that the NPF and the APDA both conservatively estimate 1.5 million American PWP's. Please help if I am incorrect. Even 1.5 could be a substantial undercount. Many, many sub-populations of unknown and UNDIAGNOSED PWP's, such as the instituionalized, the high-rise elderly, the poor, the rural, the ghettos and barrios of people of color, and those who hide in shame of their symptoms are well-known to exist. There are also the unknown numbers of pre-symptomatic PWP's who exist, in the absence of a standard dopamine deficiency test before VISIBLE symptoms appear. The P.A.N. petition says there are 60,000 new cases per year in the USA. That means that every 16 and two-thirds years, the entire current crew of PWP's would all have to have died off.(60,000 x 16.67= 1,000,000) Can P.A.N. 's petition numbers be changed before copies are submitted? They are almost certainly doing us a DISSERVICE. Ivan :-(