When Your Neurons Dance

A Story of a Doctor with Parkinson's
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-98997-6
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 166 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 254 g

As an Emergency Medicine consultant in one of the busiest departments in the UK, Dr Jonny Acheson loved his job. Fuelled by adrenaline, he treated and cared for some of the sickest patients who came through the doors.

In 2016, when he was 41, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, a progressive neurological condition for which there is no cure.

He found it increasingly difficult to multitask in his fast-paced world. The environment that he thrived in made his symptoms worse. Parkinson’s challenged his professional identity as an emergency doctor, and he didn’t know what to do.

When Your Neurons Dance is about how he is adapting over time with support around him - how he looked to the past to help him in the present, embracing change as new doors opened both inside and outside medicine.

Ultimately as a doctor practising with Parkinson’s, he found a way to give back, despite a condition that always takes away.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, Professional Training, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Acheson, Jonny

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete AINS Notfallmedizin & Unfallmedizin (inkl. Notdienste)
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Neurologie, Klinische Neurowissenschaft
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Allgemeinmedizin, Familienmedizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Krankenpflege
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Physiotherapie, Physikalische Therapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Long Walk 2. Simply Complex 3. This Bike Is on Me 4. Muscle Memory  5. Learning  6. Perseverance 7. The ED with PD 8. More Medication 9. Connections and Coping  10. Kyoto  11. Oz and Oil 12. Community 13. Covid 14. Compromise  15. More Symptoms 16. Healthcare Professionals with Parkinson’s  17. La Sagrada Familia 18. Time Critical Medication 19. Co-morbidities 20. Enabling not Disabling  Epilogue  End Notes  Appendix 1: My Dad: His Parkinson’s through my nine-year-old eyes script  Appendix 2: Time Critical Medication: Ten Recommendations for hospitals

Über Autor(innen)

Jonny Acheson is currently an NHS Emergency Medicine Consultant who advocates to increase the quality of care for people with Parkinson’s when they are in hospital. He, alongside fellow NHS Professionals living and working with Parkinson’s, has put Time Critical Medication on the national agenda working alongside Parkinson’s UK. He is currently the Director of Engagement at the Parkinson’s Excellence Network, a post he has held since 2022. He studied medicine at Queens University Belfast and subsequently worked in Emergency Departments in both Northern Ireland and the East Midlands. He dabbles in letter art to create short films and sketches to educate about Parkinson’s. He has exhibited in Leicester, Barcelona and Paris.

He lives in Leicestershire with his wife and two children.