Me and my neurological illness
Normal pressure hydrocephalus: new complications and concepts
Professor of Medicine Emeritus, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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I am a complete fraud; an imposter. I am not a neurosurgeon. I am not even a neurologist! I am a retired hepatologist who has spent more than 50 years on the faculty at Yale University. The only truly noteworthy entry in my curriculum vitae is that I am both a Professor of Medicine at Yale and Professor of Surgery (clinical) at the University of Miami. Until four years ago I had never even heard of normal pressure hydrocephalus, which I shall refer to as NPH. I learned about NPH the hard way—I contracted it.
In 1993 at age 67 I had retired. Early in my retirement I began to have trouble walking. My gait was slow and awkward, and gradually over 10 years it worsened until I was unable to walk at all. I lurched from place to place. The Yale neurologist that I selected to care for me
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Practical Neurology 2007 7: 209.
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