At the president’s request, Jackson said that he reviewed a number of cognitive tests and then administered the Montreal Cognitive Assessment during Trump’s first presidential physical exam on Friday afternoon at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The 10-minute exam is designed to detect mild cognitive impairment, generally in older patients. Trump answered all 30 questions correctly, Jackson said.I can't get to comments at the Washington Post, but I wonder what other doctors are saying about the test as a general reliable guide to mental functioning...
The test includes asking a patient to name several animals, draw a clock with the hands at a certain time, copy a cube and recall a short list of words, among others. Jackson said he has “no indication whatsoever that he has any cognitive issues.”
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
So, it's just intense personality and character defects, then?
Surely I can't be the only person to be somewhat disappointed that Trump isn't on the way out due to cognitive issues? (Come on - it's not like I'm wishing ill on a saint - or even your average sinner. He's an obnoxious, racist, dumb, narcissistic, serial adulterer from way back. Willing to pay off his casual sex partners just before an election, too. It's rumoured there were many other payments made.) Mind you, the test he underwent is the simplest one (which is of the kind I saw the doctor give to my Mum when she was developing dementia):
just look at the transcript between Trump and Turnbull.
ReplyDeleteHe still has no idea at the end of the call.
It is no wonder Catallaxy love him. They love idiotic incoherence
Homes
ReplyDeletemaybe it's time you took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment too
I didn't watch the doctor - who looked surprising young to be a Rear Admiral - talking at the press conference about the examination. But one who did thought that he was strangely ebullient about his patient:
ReplyDelete"Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson was so effusive in extolling the totally amazing, surpassingly marvelous, superbly stupendous and extremely awesome health of the president that the doctor sounded almost Trumpian. “The president’s overall health is excellent,” he said, repeating “excellent” eight times: “Hands down, there’s no question that he is in the excellent range. . . . I put out in the statement that the president’s health is excellent, because his overall health is excellent. . . . Overall, he has very, very good health. Excellent health.”
And just how excellent is His Excellency’s excellent health, doctor? “Incredible cardiac fitness,” was Dr. Jackson’s professional opinion. “He has incredible genes. . . . He has incredibly good genes, and it’s just the way God made him.” "
See: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-trumps-doctor-okay/2018/01/17/0d887f50-fbce-11e7-ad8c-ecbb62019393_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-e%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.c672e14ee80d