Adam DePorter was doing an undergraduate summer internship at York Hospital in Pennsylvania when his mom came in for neck pain. She was scheduled to…
Ashley AstiMarch 28, 2024
For a couple of years after being told I had Parkinson's, I was lost in the "Desert of the Recently Diagnosed." And it was a…
Laura CrawfordJanuary 12, 2024
When Karen Malkin got married, she switched from Wall Street to teaching. “I thought it’d be a quieter career,” she said, laughing. Turns out, teaching…
Ashley AstiDecember 14, 2023
“When people hear they have Parkinson’s and they’re told it’s neurodegenerative”—that it’s going to get worse and worse over time—“they might get a stereotypical picture…
Ashley AstiDecember 8, 2023
Long before Jose Cabassa, MD, chose to specialize in movement disorders, his grandmother planted a seed in him. “My grandmother was a master at making…
Ashley AstiNovember 30, 2023
For David Shprecher, DO, caring for the movement disorders community is personal. Dr. Shprecher has been open about his journey with Tourette’s syndrome, a neurological…
Ashley AstiMay 5, 2023
“Medicine is so broad and so closely interwoven with general interests, dealing as it does with all ages, sexes, and classes, and yet of so…
Ashley AstiFebruary 27, 2023
We dance in the hallways. He smells like I imagine nighttime Adam might smell and I smell like his hair and the skin…
Ashley AstiFebruary 2, 2023
Unlikely Beginnings It wasn’t love at first sight. When George and Judy met, he was dating her college roommate. But by the time summer rolled…
Ashley AstiNovember 28, 2022
