Drug-Resistant Epilepsy: How Do We Define?

Rick’s strategy for managing his epilepsy wasn’t perfect, but it had worked well enough for most of his career as a theme park project manager who traveled the world. Whether he worked in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore or Germany, his routine was always the same. After arriving in a new city, he would find a local doctor, schedule a CT scan of his brain, show the doctor his previous scans, get a new prescription, and inform his co-workers that he had epilepsy. He wanted people to understand that, “If I do something weird, you’ll know what it is.”