Dr. Charles "Pat" Davis, MD, PhD, is a board certified Emergency
Medicine doctor who currently practices as a consultant and
staff member for hospitals. He has a PhD in Microbiology (UT at
Austin), and the MD (Univ. Texas Medical Branch, Galveston). He
is a Clinical Professor (retired) in the Division of Emergency
Medicine, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, and has been
the Chief of Emergency Medicine at UT Medical Branch and at
UTHSCSA with over 250 publications. The outlook for someone with
seizures usually depends on the cause of the seizure.
Investigation by a doctor is usually needed to discover the
cause or at least exclude some causes. Most seizures related to
medications, drugs, or minor head injury, for example, resolve
without specific treatments and do not indicate an ongoing
seizure disorder or epilepsy. Most other seizure disorders can
be effectively managed with proper medications given under the
guidance of your doctor or a specialist known as a neurologist.
Some seizure disorders are di