From the New York Times:
www.nytimes.com/.../18swimmer.html
A Disabled Swimmer’s Dream, a Mother’s Fight
By ALAN SCHWARZ
Published: June 18, 2008
SAN DIEGO — As Kendall Bailey swims, his praying-mantis limbs flapping him forward, something about the water disguises his many maladies: cerebral palsy, mental retardation, autism and more. Only in a swimming pool do they dissolve and allow his troubled body and mind to be all but normal. He is happy, safe and possibly the fastest disabled breaststroker in the world....
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The San Francisco Chronicle? There is a widely read Medical Journal.....NOT!
Where are the facts to back up these ludicrous accusations?
This kid is 19 years old....You actually expect us to believe that he could have been misdiagnosed for Cerebral Palsey and all of that other stuff?
I for one being a retired Vet hope like hell I never come under your care!
And by the way....where in any of his problems was mentioned about a psychiatric disorder......Every one of the problems I read about was physical.....including Autism (read up on it) and mental retardation!
The San Francisco Chronicle? There is a widely read Medical Journal.....NOT!
Where are the facts to back up these ludicrous accusations?
This kid is 19 years old....You actually expect us to believe that he could have been misdiagnosed for Cerebral Palsey and all of that other stuff?
I for one being a retired Vet hope like hell I never come under your care!
And by the way....where in any of his problems was mentioned about a psychiatric disorder......Every one of the problems I read about was physical.....including Autism (read up on it) and mental retardation!
