Public awareness on shortage of PD doctors?

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:27 am Post subject: Public awareness on shortage of PD Doctors?

PD is a progressive and chronic disease.

It is also an neurological disease.

PD is a second highest numbers disease besides the Alzheimer"s disease for those at the age above 60 years old.

There are one million PD patients in USA.

Some PD patients are wrongly diagnosed as aging and no medication for treatment as there are shortages of PD specialists to treat the sickness.

In Malaysia there is only one PD specialist and there are so far 5 specialists in Singapore.

Besides patient has self denial, fill with anger and grief once is detected and does not cooperative with doctor to continue for treatment.

He fills with anger, grief and bargain with doctor .

He only accepts for treatment once he sees no hope to normal.

It is too late for him as the PD is a progressive disease.

Besides it is also difficulty to diagnose the PD as other diseases have the same syndromes .

Some doctors even find difficulty to optimized the combination of Medicine with PD as some PD patients do not understand the sickness and there is a communication breakdown between the doctors and the patients.

As times pass by the sickness made worsen.

Besides the medicine have aside effect on patients i.e constipation, and nausea

They depend on doctors each time and do not know how to manage and control the disease.

PD patients do not die on PD itself but die of other fatal infest ion diseases made worsen by PD itself.

It is not a fatal disease like cancer. Teo Kim Hoe
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Dr. RodriguezJoined: 22 Jan 2007Posts: 0Location: Gainesville, Fl
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 3:36 pm Post subject:

Knowledge about the disease is the most powerful tool._________________Ramon L Rodriguez, MD
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