Re: PWP's in on-line Spotlight: Ivan Suzman and Karen Bardo

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Many PD specialists travel to other areas once or several times a month to
see patients who cannot travel to their university offices.  Some, like the
doctors at RPSL in Chicago, travel to surrounding suburbs while other
doctors, in southern Texas for example, travel to border cities.  They
arrange office space to see patients at local hospitals (good publicity for
the local hospital) but do not duplicate staff so patients have to call the
doctors' main offices to make appointments at the "outreach" sites.  This
may be something to work towards while raising money for a long-term
solution.  In fact, I believe Dr. Robert Feldman of Boston (recently
retired) did this years ago in cooperation with the VA hospital in Maine.
Just an idea.

Jeanne Lee-Rosner
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Subject: Re: PWP's in on-line Spotlight: Ivan Suzman and Karen Bardo


> Dear List Family, and especially our "State-of-Mainers" (also
> known as "Mainiacs!:") <grinning>...
>
> The  Portland Harold-Press article pointed out to me something I'd
> never given more than a brief thought about - and that is there
> appears to be a growing number of PWPs who are either forced to
> travel to another state or to drive great distances in their home
> state in order to see a neurologist specializing in movement
> disorders with a support team specializing in movement disorders.
>