A physician wrote a letter to the editor of the Atlantic Monthly pointing out that Bush has symptoms of presenile dementia. Now that the debate has shown that his speaking skills are not up to the performances earlier in his career, I am wondering if the doctor is right.

Here's a bit of a quote and link. - Alice

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Dr. Price suggests that "not being a professional medical researcher and clinician, Fallows cannot be faulted
for not putting two and two together. But he was 100 percent correct in suggesting that Bush's problem cannot
be 'a learning disability, a reading problem, [or] dyslexia,' because patients with those problems have always
had them." The doctor. goes on to say, "Slowly developing cognitive deficits, as demonstrated so clearly by the
President [sic], can represent only one diagnosis, and that is 'presenile dementia'! Presenile dementia is best
described to nonmedical persons as a fairly typical Alzheimer's situation that develops significantly earlier in
life, well before what is usually considered old age."

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