It began, as most things seem to have this past year, with a Zoom. My neurologist at St Mary’s in Paddington thought a second opinion about my treatment for Parkinson’s disease would be a good idea. That meant a video appointment with a brilliant young consultant at Charing Cross Hospital.
Dr Yen Tai began with a rigorous examination of my symptoms, as far as that is possible down a webcam, and prescribed new medication. Then we started talking about our common interest, technology. When he described a trial he was helping to run that used artificial intelligence to diagnose and monitor Parkinson’s I knew I had to be involved — and he agreed to enrol me.
A couple of weeks later a large box was
