Health committee  Without meaning to be melodramatic, it's a six-hour-long surgery while you're fully conscious. I think the notion of the brain being drilled and sawed into is kind of a frightening one, especially when you have a steel frame attached to your head, and there are holes drilled into

Health committee  Sure. In terms of drug costs, the suite of drugs that I was taking prior to my surgery, which is now reduced by virtue of the surgery, had an aggregate cost of about $20,000 to $25,000 a year. I was fortunate to have a medical plan that covered a good chunk of it, but neverthel

Health committee  Thank you. My name is David Simmonds. I'm a former national chair of Parkinson's Society of Canada, but I'm here on my own behalf, as an individual who's lived with Parkinson's for the last 20 years. You said Dr. Simmonds, and I just want to make sure there is no misunderstandi