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My nights with C: How Parkinson’s Disease made me want to be a Doctor
This past week we had a Pharmacology exam with only about 1,000 drugs to know. One of the drugs we reviewed was dopamine, because some drugs can cause Parkinsonism tremors as a side effect. We also reviewed what causes Parkinson’s Disease and how to treat it, as well as where it occurs. This blog isn’t about all the drugs we had to study or how dopamine works. It’s about why every time I hear “Parkinson’s,” I’m reminded of my first real experience with the disease, and my fir