NBC News' Tom Llamas recently hosted a segment with board-certified neurologist Dr. Tom Pitts, in which he discussed Parkinson's disease and its characteristic symptoms. The conversation quickly turned to concerns about President Joe Biden's health, with Dr. Pitts expressing frustration at the White House's lack of transparency and preparedness.
Llamas began by asking Dr. Pitts had noticed any red flags in President Biden's behavior. “Have you noticed anything that gives you a red flag as a doctor?” asked Llamas.
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Dr. Pitts replied, “Oh, yes. I see him 20 times a day in the clinic. I mean, it's ironic, because he just has these classic features of neurodegeneration. I mean, difficulty finding words, and that's not” Oh, I couldn't find the word.” This is from the degeneration of the word recovery area.”
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Llamas noted that Biden has overcome his stutter, asking if that might be part of the problem. Dr. Pitts dismissed it, saying, “No, it's not a palatal problem, or a speech discrepancy, which is very different from (inaudible) dysfunction or actual word retrieval, where you choose a question similar or talk about the subject more monotonous voice stiffness”.
When Llamas asked for clarification about the stiffness, Dr. Pitts explained, “Oh, stiffness. Loss of arm swing, lifting up, lordotically, when you turn, it's kind of an end-block turn. It's not a quick turn. . So that's one of the hallmarks of Parkinson's, is the stiffness and the slow movement. And it has this stamp, especially with the low voices that was a cold, monotonous voice like that throughout the time, it's a hallmark of parkinsonism. I could have diagnosed it from across the mall.”
The llamas showed Parkinson's symptoms on screen and asked about Biden's departure. “Some people have pointed out the way he walks. Sometimes it's not very fast. small steps Is this common in people fighting a disease like Parkinson's?
Dr. Pitts confirmed, “Yes, it's a characteristic feature of the gait. That's what we call small steps, loss of arm swing due to stiffness when we walk, we have a good cadence. Notice that he doesn't really swing his arms or turn the block end, which means it revolves around the foot. If you said, 'Hello, President Biden,' it wouldn't go like that.”
Llamas emphasized the difficulty of diagnosing Parkinson's. Dr. Pitts replied, “It's actually one of the easiest movement disorders to diagnose. But it's very clinical. There are very few others. And I'm a Democrat. This guy is not a hard case.”
Expressing frustration with the White House's approach, Dr. Pitts said: “Yes, because, you know, I'm an American first. And I look at it and say, when I used to see Russia, the Soviet Union, Korea of the North, when they just do outrageous things, you know, like when, when North Korea can't keep the lights on, and they say, “Oh, you know, it was a faulty power thing. I hate this kind of thing. They were four years old. My own party had four years to find, you know, this was a slow-motion wreck, and they had four years to find, out of 350 million Americans, a person who could fill the seat. And here we are, the day before school, trying to do homework and substitute for a boy who has a neurodegenerative disease”.
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