The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter...
Transcript of The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter...
![Page 1: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
The Post-Polio
Syndrome:
An Orphan Disease
Peter Nolan FRACP
Continuing Medical Education
![Page 2: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
“I knew Jesus before
he was a Superstar”
A song by Francis Henry
Beware of the Marketing
Manager!
![Page 3: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
A personal history
My Grandfather was an orphan.
No birth certificate
His mother died when aged 12.
His Mother buried in an unmarked grave.
Left school age 10 to be a house boy for the landed gentry
Joined the AIF in 1915 with no next of kin on his enrolment papers
No personal possessions when he left in 1915 and arrived back in Australia in 1919.
![Page 4: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
What is an Orphan?
Form the Greek word Orphanus meaning
bereaved.
Bereaved; Rob, dispossess;usually of
immaterial things e.g. life , hope etc.
Leave desolate.
Bereaved of parent.
Bereft of previous protection and advantages.
![Page 5: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Why is Post-Polio an Orphan
disease?
No next-of kin. Indeed some people consider
that it doesn’t even exist.
Dispossessed of any formal recognition by
the modern health care system.
![Page 6: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
![Page 7: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
![Page 8: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
![Page 9: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
![Page 10: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
![Page 11: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
![Page 12: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
![Page 13: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
![Page 14: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
![Page 15: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
![Page 16: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
![Page 17: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
![Page 18: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
![Page 19: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
![Page 20: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
![Page 21: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
![Page 22: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
![Page 23: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
![Page 24: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
![Page 25: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
![Page 26: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
![Page 27: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
![Page 28: The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease · The Post-Polio Syndrome: An Orphan Disease Peter Nolan FRACP Continuing Medical Education “I knew Jesus before he was a Superstar”](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081617/6049d068afec1c1d184ddc3b/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)