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Re: Electrical Brain Stimulation
I have just been told by my neurosurgeon in Vancouver that the gov't=20 wouldn't fund the equpment needed to do the surgery here (on the west coast of Canada. I'm hoping to be referred elsewhere. Do you have the addresses of the placesand surgeons doing the procedure? On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, judith richards wrote: > Andy Blatz wrote: > >I checked and found that all three stimulator implant procedures are app= roved for use in Canada: thalamic, pallidal and STN.< > AND > > A neurosurgeon from Canada responded to the question about deep brain > > stimulator approval as follows: Things work a little differently in Can= ada than in the USA.< >=20 > Thanks Andy and Peter, who posted earlier. Sometimes I feel the smaller > countries like Canada and Australia are forgotten when the worldwide > picture is discussed. :( >=20 > Judith > -- > Judith Richards, London, Ontario, Canada > <judithr@xxxxxxxx> > ^^^ > \ / > \ | / Today=92s Research > \\ | // ...Tomorrow=92s Cure > \ | / > \|/ > ``````` >=20
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