Episode 213: Rapid City's First Epilepsy Monitoring Unit with Donald Barr, M.D.

Until this year, families in western South Dakota had to drive to Minnesota or Colorado for epilepsy monitoring. Now Monument Health has opened the region's first epilepsy monitoring unit, right here in Rapid City. Epileptologist and neurology section chief Dr. Donald Barr talks about what happens during a five-day stay and why doctors sometimes want to trigger a seizure on purpose. He also covers the surgery that can actually cure epilepsy, and how watching his own father live with the disease shaped his career. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.