Due to the services of a pioneering neurologist with a hobby of investigative medical detective work,
IRIS made news by publishing an accurate assessment of Ariel Sharon's stroke
eighty times faster than the first report in the mainstream media.
Now he is at it again, so I will be publishing any of his insights into the medical case that could determine control of the Senate. Caveat: This entry will only be updated when medically significant information is released, which may be quite slow. During the Sharon case, most of the medical reporting was noise: insignificant, recycled or inaccurate.
Dec. 14 (11 am Eastern):
It sounds like he was suffering from the arteriovenous malformation shunting blood away from part of his brain to the point that part of the brain was not working. It sounds like no brain cells were lost in the incident while on the telephone, so one could argue this was a transient attack rather than a stroke. However, worse episodes can develop and the doctors were probably right to intervene.
He may do fine, he may have some impairment, he may die. We just don't have enough information to know.
