Local MDA Clinic Closing

The Muscular Dystrophy Association is talking about the care of local patients a day before one of its largest fundraisers of the year, the MDA Lock-Up.

But, as the MDA continues to help patients here in Texoma fight various devastating muscular diseases, one local doctor will no longer operate under the MDA umbrella.

After more than three decades, Doctor Stephen Farmer has decided to shut down his MDA clinic in Wichita Falls.He'll still practice medicine, but his association with the MDA is going away according to letters sent to patients earlier this month.So now, local patients are being referred to specialty clinics in Fort Worth and Mansfield for treatment, where clinical trials and other specific treatments are available.

Change is not always easy, though. James Terrell says after 14 years as his patient, Doctor Farmer will be terribly missed by his other patients as well, and some who are in worse shape than him.

When I to an office visit, there's people in there that are in terrible, terrible shape. You know they can barely get to doctor farmer and they live right there, so now they're gonna have to drive two hours just to get to see a doctor, says James Terrell.

The Muscular Dystrophy Association is the leading supporter in finding cures for more than 40 neuromuscular diseases.The MDA Lock-up fundraiser being held here locally Thursday is still a big part of providing help to patients in Texoma fighting these terrible diseases.

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