is appropriate and perhaps revealing, but damn...(my first impression)...

If given his recent appearances and overt sundowning, facial droop, wide right leg swing, semantic paraphasia (confusing words or partial words that sound like others), bizarre meandering discussions (that end on him focusing on a single disparate comment unrelated to the rest), obvious confusion episodes--some that leave him seconds or minutes of blank stare, and on and on, there are few critical aspects of his current state for which a CT would be the better choice than the far more diagnostic (and yes, costly--but that is obviously not a factor) MRI. A combative patient for whom that is not practical, maybe not, or one who has internal metal devices or bullet fragments, no, but...? Not to mention, I cannot imagine the White House does not have immediate access to a portable CT scanner (mobile truck), while an MRI is far more likely to require that trip to Walter Reed. But, for me, the bottom line is that for most of his observable and most critical suspect issues, an MRI is going to be the far superior diagnostic scanning procedure. Yes, I suppose contrast CT (with dye) would afford a few more indications for its use, but I can't imagine Trump would not mention the dye as he does his stupid swiping arm movements.

That said, Trump SHOULD have access to the best specialists at Walter Reed, so I think we get nearly ZERO of the REAL STORY... But, if they are somehow focusing on working up his multiple osteoarthritic joints as the priority and near exclusion of all else (as has been suggested by other "medical" analysts) over everything else because of Trump's vanity-driven mobility concerns on camera, then that is just unbelievable medical malpractice--both to him and the country at large.

Going to end this with one collective so as not to make it permanent. LOL

or Bellevue.

It can detect amyloids in the brain. Wouldn't explain the bruising.

A McDonald's Request Inhaled.

He peeks out once in awhile and says a coherent thing or two, but mostly he's lost in his dementia ridden world telling people how he's going to build monuments to himself. He wanders off and talks about the craziest things that even the military troops laugh at. Catapults??? Steam Engines???? He hates good looking people????

The man is bonkers, is talking nonsense and is wandering off to crazy land.

Time for his handlers to pump him up with some drugs that give him momentary flashes of sanity. But even these didn't seem to work in Japan.

I just want the grim reaper to haul his evil, lying, depraved ass to hell, the sooner the better.

which is a permanent port just under the skin with a catheter that feeds into the superior vena cava. The port is made of a sefl healing rubber and is accessed through a special needle through the skin. The needle can be left in place for a while but if a sleeping or demented patient pulls it out, the worst that happens is a couple of drops of blood on the PJs or bedding. As central lines go, it's one of the safest.

I suggest this because there haven't been any recent pictures of injured hands after infusions have infiltrated veins and caused problems.

AS for the MRI "machine," years ago we had low field MRIs for morbidly obese people and also or head and spinal cord injury patients who need us tight there with them to hold them in position. These machines were wide open and I never ran into anyone who was so obese we couldn't squeeze them in. The imaging wasn't nearly as clear as that from a high field, slide 'em down the tube machine, but it was a little better for soft tissue problems than a CT scan. So King PusPocket 's waving arms might not have been compeletly wrong, but I think it was more likely a CT scan, myself, there would have been no reason for an MRI. The CT scan would have shown them any calcification and that's what they'd have been looking for.

After all, they already know his brain is turning to mush. That's why he needs frequent infusions.