My father who had PD for 16 years and died at 88 was taken to the hospital after he fell and couldn't get up, no broken bones. After 5 days in the NWH hospital, he was beginning to walk whereupon he came down with aspiration pneumonia with a fever. They could not bring the fever down after another 5 days. The idiot Infectious Control doctor decided that my father had "drug fever" and stopped all Sinemet. After another 4 days my father was totally stiff and died of a pulmonary embolism. I found out from his nurse the day before my father died that the Sinemet was dc'd. I called dad's neuro and told him what I just heard. The next morning. they had given dad a sinemet shot and he perked right up. That afternoon, he died of a blood clot to the lung.