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Please consider helping us raise funds for medical treatment for our beloved community physician. Dr. Devin Mikles treated thousands of members of our community over 27 years and provided several millions of dollars of free care during that time. Devin has had Parkinson’s disease for 20 years now. He is in stage 3 of 5 of the disease. He was forced to retire early due to the progression of the disease, and now requires caregivers to assist him. He has battled the disease with much courage and devotion, hoping against all odds to find a treatment that would allow him to return to practicing medicine, and live out his natural life without the debilitating symptoms of Parkinson’s.

He has just been offered a breakthrough medical treatment that has the potential to reverse the disease to the level of the pre-symptomatic stage, and potentially cure this disease.

Although the treatment is offered by a reputable US-based biotech company (Zhittya Genesis Medicine) and has undergone trials in the US for heart disease, it has not yet been approved by the FDA for patients with Parkinson's in the US. It has however been approved by the Government of the United Kingdom in the British Virgin Islands, and the company is offering a compassionate trial to Devin. However, if Devin is going to receive this life-altering therapy, he will have to travel out of the country and the treatment will cost him $50,000. It may take another 5-10 years before FDA approval will occur for this medicine. Devin simply does not have time to wait that long to receive this treatment, due to the fact that progress to the end stage of the disease will occur much more rapidly from this point on.