1) Wouldn't you want to know say a year in advance, before you made all kinds of hospital visits and it was finally confirmed? I bet you would. Perhaps to start preparing for a different life, career, perhaps to advance future plans of things you'll gradually become less able to do. People want to know.
2) Can you imagine that if somehow, for example, you could detect Parkinson's by smell, that this would open up all kinds of findings, research and understanding about what Parkinson's is, how it works, how it's detected etc, that could potentially lead to better treatment or even a cure? I bet you can imagine there's a positive correlation between understanding something better and the ability to treat it in future.
3) it's simply interesting in and of itself. How curious, isn't it?
1) Wouldn't you want to know say a year in advance, before you made all kinds of hospital visits and it was finally confirmed? I bet you would. Perhaps to start preparing for a different life, career, perhaps to advance future plans of things you'll gradually become less able to do. People want to know.
2) Can you imagine that if somehow, for example, you could detect Parkinson's by smell, that this would open up all kinds of findings, research and understanding about what Parkinson's is, how it works, how it's detected etc, that could potentially lead to better treatment or even a cure? I bet you can imagine there's a positive correlation between understanding something better and the ability to treat it in future.
3) it's simply interesting in and of itself. How curious, isn't it?