Dr. Tom Pitts appeared on “NBC News Now” Monday to discuss the conversations swirling about a Parkinson’s expert from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, who visited the White House eight times in the last eight months, per the logs released by the White House.
Here was the exchange between Pitts and the NBC anchor:
Anchor: You noticed anything that gives you a red flag as a doctor?
Pitts: Oh yeah. I see him 20 times a day in clinic. It’s ironic because he has classic features of neurodegeneration. We’re finding difficulties — and that’s not ‘Oh, I couldn’t find the word’ that’s from degeneration of the word retrieval area.
Anchor: He’s also overcome stuttering, though. Could that be part of that, too?
Pitts: No, this is not a palatal issue or a speech discrepancy, which is very different … rigidity, loss of arm swings, standing up lordotically; you notice when he turns,…
