Hi all! I typically do not make posts; I’m more of a silent follower type but I was watching the most recent episode of The Good Doctor and one of the patients had presented with early onset Alzheimer’s. If you watch the show and don’t want spoilers, by all means skip the post, but if you don’t care, please keep reading!
Ultimately, Dr. Shaun Murphy discovers that the patient only has his symptoms positionally and upon rotation of his neck. And in one of his deep thoughts, he thinks about the patient’s C1 compressing the jugular vein and causing the patient’s symptoms. From there, the patient has surgery and his symptoms are resolved. (In true TV magic happily ever after! Haha)
Now obviously, there are a LOT of inaccuracies of symptoms. The patient’s erratic loss of memory for one I think is not grossly accurate to how a lot of us may experience how brain fog, loss of concentration, among other things. I for one have occlusion bilaterally and have extremely difficult days but I have never forgotten the names of my family or my surroundings suddenly. Now, everyone experiences symptoms very differently and everyone has very diverse symptomatology, but this was an odd choice to go with. I didn’t quite know how to feel as a patient myself watching the show. But I know it’s TV and of course it’s dramatized. So we have to take it with a grain of salt. If anyone has any feedback, I’d love to hear it! Depending on comfort level of course!
I also disappointed that they chose this diagnosis and then not go into much detail about the procedure itself. Sometimes the show does this, but I think it would’ve been great to have a nice mention of the surgery, since so many in the community often don’t see ourselves in mainstream media often. As someone who works in healthcare, I do find procedures interesting, and maybe people would disagree with me, but having the surgery itself can be just as important too.
So I would love to hear everyone’s feedback about this! From people who watch the show and don’t, but it’s great that they depicted this in general. It’s time medical shows like this got our condition out there. When I even explain it to people outside my family, I feel so self conscious. So it’s nice to have another avenue to even get the point across. Any support is something!
Thank you for hearing me out! I love hearing from the community and everyone is so helpful! I appreciate everyone and I hope this point brings great feedback! If this is not appropriate in any way, please delete it. Totally understand and I want to be respectful of community rules! 
my jugulars is sort of pancaked by them. Maybe when I become braver I’ll make a separate post with my CTA 3D images! This forum helped me make those awhile back and they were so helpful when showing them to Dr. H and Dr. C and others in the consulting phases. They were very impressed by them! So thank you all for that! Your work does not go unnoticed by the doctors at all!