Melissa Gongdon, MD

Celebrities help more than almost anything I know in helping people to "connect" with a condition.  "My father died of Lewy bodies disease, that's what Robin Williams was found to have on autopsy but was, like so many, mis-diagnosed with Parkinsons, which perhaps had a lot to do with how his life ended as it did" I will say to people and see them 'connect' when I mention someone they "know" who they heard about having something, in this case Lewy bodies.  Or, "My mother, I believe, was missed diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and the vascular  read more »