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Treating neurodegenerative diseases
What patients want is not what doctors focus on
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Parkinson's disease is an excellent example of
the challenges of caring posed by people with neurodegenerative
disorders. It is insidious in onset, inexorably progressive, of unknown
cause, incurable, yet amenable to management with pharmacological and other interventions. With the ageing of the population the prevalence of Parkinson's disease and other such disorders is projected to increase in the years ahead.1 Thus all doctors must be
prepared to provide diagnostic and management strategies for this
growing population of patients. Medical practitioners must understand the expectations of patients and their families and introduce these
perspectives within the framework of scientific understanding and
evidence based practice. Conventional medical education has set a
tradition of practice based on science, basic and clinical, cemented by
a period of postgraduate training in the conventional apprenticeship
mode. This has ensured that practices are generally competent and safe
and grounded in the best available information. But is this
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