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Letters to the Editor: I'm a psychiatrist. Lawyers shouldn't be assessing Biden's cognitive ability
LA Times ^ | February 12, 2024 | Sidney Weissman, M.D., Highland Park, Ill.

Posted on 02/12/2024 1:44:02 PM PST by Carl Vehse

Justice Department special counsel Robert Hur has training in neither psychiatry nor neurology, yet he included an assessment of President Biden's cognitive functioning in his report declining to bring charges for mishandling classified information.

Memory assessment is a complex task and cannot be undertaken over five hours in interviews with attorneys.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: biden; california; cognition; losangeles; losangelesslimes; partisanmediashill; partylineshill; roberthur; sidneyweissman
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To: djpg

I have three points to make about this:

One: gygidynbyd

I forgot #2.

;-)


81 posted on 02/12/2024 3:59:14 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Jane Long; kiryandil

kiryandil did the work.

Great job.


82 posted on 02/12/2024 3:59:21 PM PST by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: Fledermaus

You gave me the idea to look. :)


83 posted on 02/12/2024 4:05:02 PM PST by kiryandil (Free Zaluzhny!)
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To: Carl Vehse

Sounds like this psychiatrist has recently chatted with Francois Mitterand and Helmut Kohl too.


84 posted on 02/12/2024 4:09:28 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: kiryandil

It’s a small world, eh!


85 posted on 02/12/2024 4:12:25 PM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Carl Vehse

And yet this person is a member of a profession that diagnoses prepubescent children with gender dysphoria and signs off on having them surgically and chemically mutilated for their entire lives........ and very often does it in a 15 to 30 minute interview

Meanwhile, hours of Joe Biden’s performances in front of a camera where he does everything but Drool on himself counts for nothing

Would you want to be treated by a doctor whose medical decisions are a distant second to his political ideology?
I have to wonder how many Republicans this doctor has voted for since he reached the age of majority


86 posted on 02/12/2024 4:15:15 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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To: kiryandil

Excellent find. Another liberal forgetting what they previously said, only to have it come back, and bite them in the arse. I’m not a psychologist, but this clearly shows Weisssman suffers from a bad case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.


87 posted on 02/12/2024 4:17:13 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: P-Marlowe
Here’s Joe taking his first cognitive test 78 years ago…


88 posted on 02/12/2024 4:34:09 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: reasonisfaith

This is a psychiatrist with no common sense that is trying to extrapolate the Goldwater rule to protect Biden.

Shows the psychiatrists lack of common sense.


89 posted on 02/12/2024 4:42:46 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Everyone who gets in their hands is labelled with one of their phony disorders and drugged.


90 posted on 02/12/2024 4:44:54 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Carl Vehse

People like him had no problem “diagnosing” Trump as a narcissist and more.


91 posted on 02/12/2024 4:45:45 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: Leaning Right

Only Dr’s can pronounce a person dead, but if they’ve been dead for a week it’s pretty obvious.


92 posted on 02/12/2024 4:46:09 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: girlangler

Yes, and quacks they were, my dear.


93 posted on 02/12/2024 4:50:00 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: kiryandil

My wife has an MD from Northwestern , board certified in psychiatry and neurology. She entered Med school right out of high school. Smartest person I have ever met, but she still lacks common sense.


94 posted on 02/12/2024 4:50:27 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Carl Vehse

Common sense doesn’t require a college degree, moron.


95 posted on 02/12/2024 4:55:18 PM PST by Salvavida
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To: Alberta's Child
"This psychiatrist seems to be saying that Biden should have been charged."

He can still be charged. The Special Prosecutor can be overruled by DOJ. Yeah, I know but in a way this helps Pres Trump for unequal treatment under the law because if DOJ does not get a mental assessment, then it shows partisanship.

96 posted on 02/12/2024 5:08:15 PM PST by fini
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To: Carl Vehse

Biden has repeatedly refused to take a cognitive exam and relied on his doctor to give him a clean bill of health in every physical. So a lawyer’s word is as good as anybody’s, and better than a psychiatrist who never even spoke with the guy.


97 posted on 02/12/2024 5:08:52 PM PST by x
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To: kiryandil

A GREAT nugget of research.

I’m surprised that the ‘net let you do it.


98 posted on 02/12/2024 5:31:37 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Carl Vehse

I’m a lawyer. Psychiatrists shouldn’t be assessing legal reports.


99 posted on 02/12/2024 5:38:28 PM PST by kennedy (No relation to those other Kennedys.)
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To: caddie

Based purely on dozens of doctors I have came across in my lifetime, most lack basic common sense. They are like robots who follow protocol and want to just prescribe meds without delving into what caused the problem and how to best avoid it in future.


100 posted on 02/12/2024 7:16:26 PM PST by Bobbyvotes (MAGA all the way with PDJT!)
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