title: Devastating illness paralyses body.
abstract: A patient diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome discovered most health professionals knew little about the disease. He wrote this article in September last year--11 months after the onset of his illness.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Heywood
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D020275:Guillain-Barre Syndrome / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011788:Quality of Life; D012008:Recurrence