You mean like Republican Sen. Bill Frist's over the TV diagnosis of Terry Schiavo ? A diagnosis that made him a laughing stock from coast to coast, in a case that contributed mightily to the Republican's downfall. You mean like that?
Uh, no, Captain Reading Challenged
I mean what I said - ask any physician in the world. Want to hear it a third time?
Unfortunately, though it's fun to make fun of your heroes, the cases are different. Dr Lessin is not making a diagnosis, he is stating facts. Lets go over the quote one more time, this time highlighting a different portion:
Repeat - Dr. Lessin stated something specifically about McCain, viz., "he's not cured". Dr. Lessin never saw his test reports, his MRIs, or even examined McCain, therefore he has no basis for diagnosing McCain, which he did. That's pure logic - to argue otherwise is just a dimwitted exercise in
Argumentum Authoritatem.
Dr Lessin is referencing a ten year window in the survival rate for intermediate melanoma. McCain had his surgery approximately 8 years ago, therefore he cannot, as yet, be considered cured.
That is merely a statistical observation of the
average outcome of persons who have had that surgery - it has nothing to do with McCain's specific case, for whom informed judgements can only be made by his personal physician, who is in possession of ALL the relevent facts, not merely gross medical statistics. Give it up.
