If he didn’t have such impressive form as a dim and petulant
interpreter of statistics, you might take Iain Duncan Smith for the summer’s
first high-profile victim of heatstroke. Mental confusion is one symptom of this
dangerous condition, while the NHS Direct website lists “problems speaking to
or understanding people” and “seeing or hearing things that aren’t real” among
the others. The junior doctor who caught
the Works and Pensions Secretary’s interview with John Humphrys on Monday might
have been sufficiently concerned to ask a registrar about the need to
hospitalise him, and rehydrate him by intravenous drip. “What you’re doing, as
always in the BBC, you’re seeking out lots of cases from people who are
politically motivated to say this is wrong.” This will have rung medical alarm
bells on the mental confusion front.
Read more on the Independent website.
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