Posted on 07/26/2017 2:13:18 PM PDT by spintreebob
When I first read about neurosyphilis in medical school, I became convinced that Mrs. Thatcher, who I detested intensely because it was fashionable detesting her, had general paralysis of the insane. The condition, marked by episodic bouts of temporary insanity, which indicated that the spirochetes were feasting on expensive real estate in the brain, seemed a plausible explanation for why she had introduced the poll tax.
There's something delightfully empowering, and annoyingly juvenile, about diagnosing the famous with medical conditions. It is also strangely pedagogic. I'll never forget the symptoms of syphilis, not because I've seen patients with them (nor because I have them), but because I've templated these symptoms on people who almost certainly don't suffer from syphilis.
Thus, it's no surprise that many are keen to diagnose Mr. Trump with a medical condition -- my preferred diagnosis would be Klüver–Bucy syndrome, but that would expose my juvenile intent. Far removed from childish diagnostic name calling, many serious people seriously believe that Mr. Trump has a neurocognitive condition which is seriously impairing his judgment and decision making.... The presence or absence of a disease, organic or psychiatric, is conditionally independent of whether someone agrees or disagree with your worldview.
To seek biological substrates to delegitimize opposing views risks delegitimizing the already precarious medical sciences. Ideally, normal people politely agree to disagree, but even when they don't, they're still normal.
Mr. Trump has a condition which is very prevalent in our society and under diagnosed in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It's called...
(Excerpt) Read more at medpagetoday.com ...
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
** cough ** Bill Clinton ** cough **
When I first read about neurosyphilis in medical school . . . .
What president could he be talking about?
I have a better idea. Let physicians and psychiatrists continue to diagnose Trump. Then pull their medical licenses for malpractice. A minimum of ten years should be sufficient.
And while they’re having their licenses yanked, sue them for libel and/or slander.
100% yes!
Improve the health care system by eliminating the wack jobs
who have the power to write Rxs.
Reading the article comments, one wrote that psychiatry has become hyper-politicized. Makes sense, since I assume libs suffer from mental illness, so they’re trying to use politics to declare themselves normal.
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