Your Health: Epilepsy Treatment Requires Extra Caution
Publication Date:
Fri, 10/15/2010
"Your Health: Epilepsy Treatment Requires Extra Caution," a guest column about generic drugs by Michael Privitera, Director of the UC Epilepsy Center, appears in the Oct. 15, 2010 edition of the Pulse Journal.
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.”