For F.D.R. Sleuths, New Focus on an Odd Spot

[groovedaddy]

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt died unexpectedly on April 12, 1945, in Warm Springs, Ga., the White House lost no time announcing a cause of death.

The 63-year-old president, the shocked and grieving nation was told, had died of cerebral hemorrhage. (“Last Words,” read a front-page headline in The New York Times: “ ‘I Have a Terrific Headache.’ ”)

That Roosevelt died of a stroke is undisputed. But what caused it is a medical mystery that has persisted to this day, a mystery heightened by the secrecy in which he, his aides and his doctors always insisted on shrouding his health.

Now a new book — “F.D.R.’s Deadly Secret,” by a neurologist, Dr. Steven Lomazow, and a journalist, Eric Fettmann (PublicAffairs) — revives an intriguing theory.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/health/05docs.html?th&emc=th

[IndianaGreen]

1. most of Roosevelt’s medical records disappeared shortly after his death

The speculation about a melanoma cannot be verified because there was no autopsy and no known biopsy, and most of Roosevelt’s medical records disappeared shortly after his death from a safe in the United States Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md.

In their public accounts and the few surviving medical records, his doctors never suggested that they performed a biopsy to determine whether he had any form of cancer. (Even during his lifetime there were rumors that he had prostate cancer.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/health/05docs.html?th&emc=th

:wtf:

[Demeter]

2. It Makes No Difference--He Died, and the Medical Profession Did Its Best

as to why the records disappeared, that is peculiar.