This compassionate, informative, and essentially practical book will help fill the gap too often left in doctor-patient communication. Patients are often given only minimal information about their condition and its treatment, with the family left to adapt as best they can to the long-term demands of the illness. This detailed guide provides full up-to-date information about the symptoms of the disease and its possible causes; the process of diagnosis and the likely course of the illness; various types of treatment, including medication and surgery; the implications of the disease for work, daily activities, finance, and personal and social relationships; what both patients and families can do to minimize and cope with the stresses they will have to face; and support groups and other organizations that can offer help.
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Parkinson's disease is a neurologic illness, meaning a disease caused by a dysfunction of the brain or the spinal cord-the two main parts of the central nervous system-or of the peripheral nervous system and muscles. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
brain implantation, levodopa therapy, person with the illness, taking levodopa, objective burdens, person with dementia, levodopa treatment, associated disability, walking problems, dopamine deficiency Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Parkinson's disease is a neurologic illness, meaning a disease caused by a dysfunction of the brain or the spinal cord-the two main parts of the central nervous system-or of the peripheral nervous system and muscles. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
brain implantation, levodopa therapy, person with the illness, taking levodopa, objective burdens, person with dementia, levodopa treatment, associated disability, walking problems, dopamine deficiency Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Social Security, Sidney Dorros, United States, Ivan Vaughan, Helen Rose, Patient's View, Cecil Todes, John Williams, Big Secret, Disabilities Act, Glenna Wotton Atwood New!
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