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is not being treated for Parkinson’s disease and sparred with journalists asking why a specialist in the condition had been visiting the White House.on the White House visitor log found that a neurologist with expertise in Parkinson’s disease had visited eight times from the summer of 2023 through this spring.The president is not being treated for the neurodegenerative disease, Jean-Pierre said, and his medical exam in February found no evidence of it.
“We’re miffed around here about how information has been shared with the press corps,” CBS News correspondent Ed O’Keefe said. “A wide variety of specialists from the Walter Reed system visit the White House complex to treat the thousands of military personnel who work on the grounds,” Andrew Bates, a White House spokesperson, said in a statement.
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