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Longtime expert on A.L.S now knows it all too well

By John Schwartz

Longtime Expert on A.L.S. Now Knows It All Too Well

By JOHN SCHWARTZ

Published: February 22, 2005

AN FRANCISCO - Dr. Richard K. Olney steers his motorized wheelchair toward the front door of the A.L.S. Center at the University of California, San Francisco.

Like other patients who visit the center, he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a disease that destroys the nerves that control movement, trapping the victim in an increasingly inert body. It is inevitably fatal, often within a year or two.