PORTLAND, Oregon - Some people call it "the dark time," the period between when a person is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and when treatment with medication begins. Julie Carter, R.N., knows it all too well. The associate professor of neurology in the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine hosts workshops to help newly diagnosed Parkinson's patients and their families cope with the prospect of fighting a chronic, degenerative, incurable neurological disease the rest of their lives.
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