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Being a patient with early stage Parkinson disease: reaction to the diagnosis and management
Author(s) -
Blacker David J.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
internal medicine journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 1444-0903
DOI - 10.1111/imj.15154
Subject(s) - medicine , perspective (graphical) , disease , parkinson's disease , stage (stratigraphy) , intensive care medicine , pathology , paleontology , artificial intelligence , computer science , biology
This personal viewpoint, written by a neurologist with Parkinson disease (PD), is to provide a patient's perspective, to accompany the clinical perspective in this issue of the Intenal Medicine Journal entitled 'Approach to the patient with early stage Parkinson disease'. The aim is to provide a personal insight into the numerous issues surrounding early diagnosis and management of PD, from the position of being a physician patient.