According to White House visitor logs reviewed by the New York Post, Dr Kevin Cannard, a Parkinson’s disease expert at Walter Reed medical center, met with Dr Kevin O’Connor, a doctor of osteopathic medicine who has treated the president for years.
The visit took place at the White House residence clinic on 17 January. Cannard has visited the White House house eight times since August 2023. On seven of those visits, most recently in late March, he met with Megan Nasworthy, a liaison between Walter Reed and the White House.
I actually happened to talk to a neurologist about this today and they didn’t buy Biden as having Parkinson’s (apparently his gait doesn’t match, gait analysis being a key diagnostic indicator of many neurological conditions). They’re also a major lib, so it could be pure cope, but it sounded like a straightforward medical assessment to me and they’re not the type to bullshit me. And for what it’s worth, I just checked and even the doctor they had on Fox News said the same (he speculated it might be vascular dementia).
I don’t think the specific medical diagnosis matters that much, though. It doesn’t take a neurologist to see that Biden’s not playing with a full deck of cards, and he’s clearly getting worse and not better. And obviously his camp is never going to release results of a cognitive evaluation because it would mean they could no longer lie through their teeth about his fitness for office.