[prion]

Krauthammer wrote that he had been in a wheelchair from a spinal injury since age 22. "For 28 years I've been hearing that a cure is just a few years away. Being a doctor, I have discounted such nonsense." A medical expert -- a disabled one, no less -- was preaching the right message in a national newsweekly.

Holy crap! Krauthammer is a doctor and has been in a chair for years?! I've been reading his columns for ages, and I had no idea of either.

[My Favorite Headache]

He was in either an auto accident or diving accident at the age of 28. I have yet to find which it was.

[oblomov]

He is (or, was, prior to his career as a political commentator) a psychiatrist.

[maryz]

He's also a psychiatrist. (Psychiatrists have to have an M.D. before training.)

[BigSkyFreeper]

I had no idea he was in a wheelchair either, until a few years ago, when he accepted a speaking engagement that was telecast on CSPAN and he wheeled himself out to the microphone. Krauthammer is a personal asset to my knowledge of foreign affairs, because Krauthammer knows his stuff, and I just absorb every article of his.