Re: New Dr. needed?

[seagulls <dove@xxxxxxx>]

It sounds like its time to fire the doc.  You and your mother are consumers
of medical services.  Shop for a suitable neurologist like you would a new
car- ask questions.  Surely there is some help a neurologist can provide for
PD+ even in the late stages.  While I'm a newbie
to this PD newsgroup due to my father-in-laws recent dx, I am not new to
the health care field.  I am a hospice masters level social worker in
Cincinnati w/ this areas largest hospice.  If your mother is indeed late
stage, you
may want to contact a hospice program in your area- usually a nonprofit
hospice program is better.  Not all hospices serve PD pts., but some do &
Medicare pays for most everything in-home she will need at 100%. If one
hospice refuses her try another.

On Mon, 24 Jul 1995, Perdue - Joyce wrote:

> On my mother's last visit to her neurologist, he diagnosed Parkinson's
> Plus and then told her that there was no need for her to come back to him
> anymore, as there was nothing else he could do for her.   She has been
> seeing him for years, and I've always thought he sounded cold as she
> would recount her visits, but this just "takes the cake".  Why would he
> say this, unless it's the standard practice to cut loose a patient when
> the end is in sight.  Of course, he will continue to provide for her
> prescriptions, but she and I believe that it is time to see another
> neurologist.  She is barely mobile, can eat little.  Would it be futile
> to pursue another neurologist?  She has so little stamina, that I hate to
> subject her to all that it would entail.  On the other hand, she feels
> abandoned.  What do you think?
>