PNA Conference: Save The Date The Pituitary Network Association’s biannual conference will be held Oct. 1-3 in San Francisco
Patient’s Perspective: Danette M. Griffith “After 25 MRI’s with the last 10 or so showing no changes, I thought I was past everything to do with my pituitary disease and… be done with it.”
Message From The Founder We Are Finally Gaining On It: One of the greatest disappointments we have experienced over the past 17 years has to do with numbers.
PNA Spotlight: Dr. Shereen Ezzat:
He has been an integral part of this organization from the very beginning. Dr. Ezzat is a co-founder and past president of the PNA. By Suzanne Potter, PNA Editor
Mailbox: “But the doctors at the facility where he was treated mocked your assumption of one in five and said it is maybe one in five hundred. I believe they need a dose of reality on these facts.”
Jim Shelton: A Patient’s Perspective It was August 2002 and for the first time in many years I was unemployed. I was still in somewhat of a state of shock from being let go from my computer job.
Latest News From Medscape: Endocrine emergencies such as thyroid storm, myxedema coma, DKA, and adrenal crisis are relatively uncommon and frequently overlooked.
ELM Case Study A “substitute” physician must be equivalent.
Sharmyn McGraw: Patient’s Perspective: Reflecting back over the past eight years since my pituitary surgery, I find myself in awe. I remember before my surgery dreaming of having a “normal” life again without Cushing’s.
