Sharon's Health Reporting Still a Farce

Prime Minister Sharon was not qualified to make decisions the night he was hospitalized for a stroke on Dec. 18, his physicians said Monday at a press conference in Jerusalem. The physicians said Sharon recovered quickly and was functioning properly the next day, but that the stroke was not considered "mild," as originally had been reported, since it lasted more than 24 hours. Prof. Tamir Ben-Hur of Hadassah University Hospital said Sharon came to the hospital because he was having difficulty speaking. However, Sharon was able to describe exactly what happened the night of his hospitalization, signaling that the speech problem had not been a sign of a confused state, Ben-Hur said.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon may have recovered from his minor stroke last week, but his press team is still undergoing shock-therapy.

Monday's bizarre press conference, with no less than four doctors who had treated Sharon, but without any cameras or tape, was an attempt at damage control following the last few days' media farce....health reporters...were not allowed to attend....The fact that most of the media referred to the event as a "revealing of Sharon's medical file" showed that the tactic worked. The reporters weren't shown his file