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Now, tell me how someone who is dying and is getting no treatment and is eating the equivalent of ‘gruel’ at the hands of his captors, gets well? It doesn’t happen. Either he wasn’t as bad or he was getting treatment or both. That’s not an attack, that’s a medical fact.

Here is an account from azcentral.

After six weeks in the hospital, McCain was taken to a prison camp known as The Plantation and placed in a cell with George "Bud" Day and Norris Overly, both Air Force majors.
Taking one look at McCain, Day was convinced that the North Vietnamese had brought McCain to their cell to die and planned on blaming the Americans.
"He was extremely skinny, and he was just about filthy," said Day, who after the war became a longtime Fort Walton Beach, Fla., attorney and veterans-affairs activist. "He had food and drink and liquids run all over his face. He had a pretty good beard. ... He probably weighed less than 100 pounds.
"He was in this great big white cast, and his hair was snow white. He just looked like he was absolutely on the verge of death."
Day said McCain's injured right arm jutted from his body cast like a stick "sticking out of a snowman."
But more than anything else, Day remembers McCain's eyes.
"His eyes were extremely bright; they had that real fever luster," Day said. "I just took one look at him and had no qualms that he was going to die, and soon."
Despite his poor condition, McCain still was happy to see fellow Americans. The men spent the night whispering among themselves.
By 6 a.m., Day was convinced that McCain had a decent chance to live, providing the fever did not get him. Slowly, McCain began to recover.
"He was just a very determined guy with a lot of spirit," Day said. "It's kind of like when you see a horse, a young colt, and you just know this is a strong-spirited animal. You could see all that in him."

If you want to call Bud Day's (Medal of Honor) first hand account a lie based on your extensive medical knowledge you are going to have a big problem with every Freeper here.

Did you read what I wrote?

Did you read Day’s account?

I was commenting on the article posted. This article led me to believe that some time went by between the ‘he’s going to die’ comment and ‘somehow he recovered’. Are you with me?

Over time, without medical treatment and proper nutrition, one who is dying, dies. They do not get better.

Then I said that either he wasn’t as bad or he got treatment or both.

In Day’s account, he stated that the day McCain came into camp looking so bad that he thought that he would die. THEN, by 6 AM, he was looking better.

Guess what? If this happened within a day of arriving then Day was wrong and McCain wasn’t as bad as he thought. There is nothing inconsistent between what I said and what Day reported.

Do you feel better now? Are all of the other FReepers okay now too?