User talk:AFGriffithMD

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Welcome!

Hello, AFGriffithMD, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  Siva1979Talk to me 18:11, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome

Hi, A.F. Griffith MD. I was hoping you'd join our growing group of Wikipedia doctors at Wikipedia:WikiProject Clinical medicine. Its talk page serves as a messaging board on medical issues, and we have a more-or-less weekly collaboration which has so far yielded a number of featured articles.

With Barb Davis and yourself we may have a great team to bring the PD pages up to featured level. It is certainly a multidimensional problem with significant QOL issues that should interest the general reader as much as the seasoned professional. What do you think? JFW | T@lk 23:47, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to help on the PD page as well. I'm currently battling Keith Bridgeman/General Tojo over my descriptive epidemiology section, something he clearly does not understand. He has quoted an articel of mine under the heading of "incidence" when the article is about prevalence. And repeated admonishments are having no effect. ........dan strickland --Dan 16:52, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] the organizational changes are a distinct improvement

i am pleased by the reorganization and re-ordering; the article is substantially improved. (I'm also pleased, in a sslightly petty way, i suppose, to see content and language that i contributed preserved. i feel especially strongly about the section referring to the necessity of cooperation between patients and those who care for them. I am an early onset pd patient, symptomatic at 42, dxed at 44, now 49. i have master's degrees in public health, anthropology, and journalism, , and would have completed a Phd (research topic was drug resistant TB in northern Thailand) but for advancing illness, primarily depression. i speak on pd topics to medical audiences. thank you for doing a nice job.Bldavids 13:54, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tourette syndrome

Hi, AFG. Welcome! I'm new to Wikipedia myself, and have been trying for several weeks to drum up someone to help me improve the Tourette syndrome article. I was hoping to interest you in perusing the To Do list on my User page, and having a look at the TS article, to suggest directions for improvement? I've got a handle on a lot of the research, but my prose is not great, and I haven't found anyone interested in helping out. I've spent most of my time so far cleaning up a lot of vanity entries on the article, and haven't really been able to focus on writing. If you're interested, I would certainly appreciate the input. Sandy 22:33, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the offer, AFG ... any time is good! Sandy 19:14, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
I came across something which I wanted to leave here, hoping that you can clarify as time permits. List of eponymous diseases contains an entry for Brissaud disease. The page for Brissaud disease redirects to Tourette syndrome. I've not encountered the term Brissaud's being used in place of Tourette's, so I'm not clear if this is an error, or needs a different, new redirect or entry ? Sandy 14:18, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
Eduoard Brissaud also described a motor and vocal tic disorder. However, Charcot liked the name Giles de la Tourette syndrome, and so the name stuck. AFGriffithMD 07:30, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
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