Comments are pretty funny

“ smartalek boston ma Feb. 20, 2022 NYT readers are a motley agglomeration -- I'm one, after all - -but they are, overall, a generally educated and accomplished cohort, so I'm more than confident there are some practicing clinicians in this audience. I am speaking to all of you. For the sake of the nation, I beg you to set aside for the moment all the usual blather abt the propriety of delivering diagnoses absent a formal, face-to-face interview and the standard batteries of tests (the stakes are clearly way too high for such luxuries) and just tell us if our intuitive suspicions (because I bloody well know I'm not the only one harboring them) are correct -- that these people are certifiable? That a substantial fraction of our populace, not to mention the bulk of our presently most powerful political party, are being led and directed by a couple of outright lunatics? Anyone? Bueller?”