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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I don’t need a doctorate to be skeptical about the sorry state of the medical profession and the all too high risk of someone being misdiagnosed with a psychiatric disorder instead of finding out what's really wrong.
Apparently you don't need an education, either.
His problems are neurological, not psychiatric. And as the parent of a disabled child myself, I daresay his mother has left no stone unturned when it comes to his medical care.
I don’t need a doctorate to be skeptical about the sorry state of the medical profession and the all too high risk of someone being misdiagnosed with a psychiatric disorder instead of finding out what's really wrong.
Apparently you don't need an education, either.
His problems are neurological, not psychiatric. And as the parent of a disabled child myself, I daresay his mother has left no stone unturned when it comes to his medical care.
