Does the President have Parkinson’s disease? Parkinsonism?
First let’s see what the difference is between these two conditions. From medicalnewstoday.com:
Parkinson’s disease is a progressive disorder that affects the brain, chiefly causing changes in movement.
Some of the most common symptoms include tremors, muscle stiffness, and changes in a person’s gait when walking.
Atypical Parkinsonism has several known syndromes that affect a person’s overall health. Examples include Lewy body dementia, a type of early-onset dementia.
Atypical Parkinsonism may not respond to traditional Parkinson’s disease treatments, so getting a correct diagnosis is important to ensure a person receives the treatments most likely to be effective.
People with atypical Parkinsonism experience symptoms in addition to those typical of Parkinson’s disease. The symptoms of Parkinson’s disease include:
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- tremors, or shaking movements that are usually in the hands
- slowed movements
- stiff muscles and lack of “swing” in the arms and legs while walking
People with atypical Parkinsonism do not tend to have a tremor at rest. They may also develop symptoms of late-stage Parkinson’s at a faster rate. These symptoms include:
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- vocal changes
- a sudden drop in blood pressure when standing up (orthostatic hypotension)
- dementia
- difficulty walking
- early gaze palsy or paralysis, where a person may not be able to look up or down
- problems swallowing
- difficulty sleeping
- hallucinations
A doctor will consider these and other symptoms when making a diagnosis.
And why is this relevant to Joe Biden?
Because of this, from Alex Berenson at substack.com:
Dr. Kevin R. Cannard, a Parkinson’s disease specialist, has visited the White House at least nine times in the last year, official White House visitor logs show.
The logs show Dr. Cannard traveled to the White House residence medical clinic each time. He met either with the president’s personal physician or the naval nurse who coordinates care for the president and other top officials, the logs show.
Dr. Cannard’s spate of visits began on July 28, 2023 and continued at least through March 28, 2024. The most recently released logs end on April 1, so it is not clear if Dr. Cannard has been to the White House more recently.
The logs do not note the purpose of Dr. Cannard’s visits.
A physician profile page for him notes he is a “neurologist and movement disorders specialist at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center” who researches treatments for “early phase Parkinson’s disease.” Walter Reed provides medical care to senior federal officials.
That’s why.
You may wonder how it is possible that a Parkinson’s specialist could come to the White House 9 times in 8 months without any of our wonderful, journalistically ethical mainstream media noticing.
Or you may assume that at least some of them knew about it…but decided it wasn’t relevant for the rest of us to know. As if the likelihood that Biden has Parkinson’s or Parkinsonism (why else would this specialist keep showing up) somehow is irrelevant to his current performance as President and your decision to keep him there for an additional four years.
Every time I think our media can’t get worse it does.
Now: when do Biden’s people own up? And how soon afterwards does Biden tell us he’s calling it quits…even if his calculating, uncaring wife – Lady MacBiden is my name for her – wants him to stay because she likes the perks of being First Lady?
