Published: 4/24/2021 2:00:11 PM Michael Lindberg knew exactly what his diagnosis would be when he walked into a neurologist office at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon 18 months ago. He actually knew for some time that the symptoms he had been dealing with would result in a Parkinson’s diagnosis. But like so many others he didn’t want to admit it. “Denial is a wonderful thing for us to apply to many different circumstances,” said Lindberg, the former Chief Medical Officer at Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough. But there were obvious signs associated with the debilitating disease – physical slowing, loss of smell, muscle spasms, tremors in his right hand and discoordination in his left “all of which are precursors to Parkinson’s,” Lindberg said.