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CSI MEDBLOGS UPDATE: YUSHENKO'S FACE GETS NEW SPIN FROM THE "HARVARD OF AUSTRIA": RUDOLFINERHAUS

Old News Is No News

In a news report released overnight, the docs at the Rudolfinerhaus clinic (did they steal their facade from Classical Values?) in Austria -- the folks who treated Yushchenko after his bad sushi meal, are reported to have cracked the Yushchenko face case...err...well, maybe they haven't CRACKED it, but they seem to be getting close to BRUISING IT according to news sources:

Doctors at the Rudolfinerhaus clinic in Vienna were close to identifying the substance that left Mr Yushchenko's face disfigured with cysts and lesions, Nikolai Korpan was quoted as telling The Times.

Okay. I can buy that. They're getting close. How close?

Specialists in Britain, the US and France had helped to establish that it was a biological or chemical agent or, most likely, a rare poison that struck Mr Yushchenko down before the presidential election

There you go.

It was a biological agent. Or a chemical agent. Or, most likely, a rare poison. That's awfully close. About as close as they were two weeks ago, when all this speculation began, and those same docs talked about poison, chemicals not of food origin, and biological weapons ... *yawn*

Now, the team at Rudolf's House are all over this case and are at the ready to confirm this classic perfidy, ASAP or, whenever they can get their hands on the Ukrainian presidential candidate, because, as they are saying, the Rudolfians:

needed to examine him again to confirm their diagnosis

Take Me Back To Vienna

So, they are going to tell all just as soon as Yushchenko returns to Austria to let them do whatever it is they still need to do to "confirm" this diagnosis which is, according to the clinic's Dr. Korpan:

... no longer a question for discussion

Unfortunately -- and I'm sure Dr. Korpan hasn't heard this yet -- Yushchenko isn't going back to Vienna. According to the U.K. Times:

a spokeswoman said he had no plans to travel to Vienna

Rats. I bet they're ticked off at him!

Food For Thought

You know, I could be completely off base about this whole affair. Call me crazy. I just look at what they report and try to make it logical so that it fits within the schematic scaffolds of my medical knowledge and training (and common sense).

Sure, there's a chance that the secret service invited Viktor to dinner and then sprinkled some rare poison or an apocalyptic chemical agent on his wienerschnitzel that failed to kill him and instead transformed his head into an oblate lava lamp...but, where I come from it makes much more sense to put the whole thing together with the most likely elements placed FIRST in the diagnostic list, and then proceed DOWNWARD to the more unlikely, rarer possible explanations for what you see. And the common chemical poison that jumps right out, in my mind, as the most likely agent in this tragic comedy comes in a snappy bottle and goes down like silky fire: Vodka.

STAY TUNED

Hat Tip: Off Wing Opinion

Posted by Doctor CBB on December 08, 2004 at 10:13 AM | Permalink

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I don't want to mess with anyone in the skin-care industry; however, rosacea can come on in a torrent, be explosively disfiguring, and no one says it is making his eye droop.

If you say 10:1 he was poisoned by something exotic, I'm willing to bet you $20,000.00 -- given those odds -- that you are wrong.

First, NOBODY poisons ANYBODY anymore -- what is this Napoleanic France? Did you ever see the Sopranos poison anyone? No. Why not? Becuase it's much easier, more reliable and more effective to drop a piano on someone's head, or shoot him in the ear, or pack him in a crate with frozen chickens and chop him up for mulch...but poisoning? And if you were a secret agent for WHATEVER spy frat, wouldn't you use a poison that KILLED the victim? Or were they purposely trying to create the corrugated potato-head look just so he'd lose the election on his ruined telegenicity?

Vikto Yushchenko drank too much vodka. This gave him pancreatitis. Alcohol (even one drink) can create a cataclysmic outbreak of rosacea; and, in this disabled state he contracted a virus which left him with a Bells Palsy.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1393172,00.html

I'll take that $2,000 is small, unmarked bills. Thanks!

As to why poison: Think about it. The goal is to kill/injure him without anyone knowing he was killed/injured. Dropping a piano on a guy might work for a skell in Brooklyn, but this is a major political figure. As posts like yours demonstrate, poisoning leaves a lot of doubters. And poisoning is not as anachronistic as you seem to think; political figures have been poisoned all throughout the 20th Century.

But seriously, you're blaming VODKA??? He probably drinks vodka every day. His face never did that before.

Posted by: TallDave | December 08, 2004 at 10:51 AM

Dave...

Do you play cards? I'd like you at my table!

You can drink vodka every day for twenty tears before getting pancreatitis. It's usually more closely related to a binge.

And the rosacea can be explosive even after one drink.

Did you read my post today? I believe that the "new revelations" tell us nothing...and since Rudolf's MDs need VY to come back to Vienna to "finally" make this Dx AND he WON'T go back -- so he says -- then...what?

Double or nothing?

Posted by: CodeBlueBlogMD | December 08, 2004 at 11:34 AM

This is a fascinating debate (and I'm glad to see your post has been widely linked and InstaLanched). But you're right about the Classical Values facade. They not only stole it, but they AGED it!

Posted by: Eric Scheie | December 14, 2004 at 10:23 AM

Doc - watcha think about the announcement from Amsterdam? Narrowed it down and even gave the toxicity level of his blood fat. "Who still poisons people?" should be "when are the Russians going to realize the CW is over and they still lost".

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