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Q: I once heard that FDR was
incorrectly diagnosed several
times before a Jew-
ish physician finally
identified his debili-
tating disease as
polio. Is that correct?
A: It is indeed — and it
was a long, painful wait
until the former president
learned the truth. In 1920,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
was vacationing with his
family on Campobello
Q: True or false?
Island, off the coast of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Did singer Phil
Maine, when he became
Collins once
noticeably ill. After a
announce before a concert,
swim, he returned home and was ter-
"Funds from this show will
ribly chilled. "I'd never felt quite that
go to the PLO, and if any-
way before," he later said.
body Jewish in the audience
The next day, when his temperature
doesn't like it, that's too
got up to 102 degrees, a physician
bad"?
I was called. This brought the first mis-
A: In its long and brilliant history, Tell
diagnosis, of a mere cold. Several
Me Why has heard this question (or
days later when FDR no longer could
versions thereof) at least four times.
walk,. the original physician returned
How the rumor got started is impossi-
but with no more ideas as to what
ble to know — but from all accounts,
was causing the problem.
it's completely false.
A second doctor was called, a sur-
To get to the truth, Tell Me Why
geon. He examined Roosevelt, then
contacted Shawn Bishop, Web mas-
announced his diagnosis of a blood
ter of a leading Phil Collins Internet
clot in the lower spine. The doctor
site. He in turn put me in touch with
came back to check on the patient a
Alistair J. Henry of Vancouver, Cana-
few days afterward, and this time
da, who is a longtime Phil Collins fan
said he believed FDR's problem was
and something of an expert on the
the result of a lesion in the spinal
singer's life.
cord, according to Elliot Roosevelt in
According to Henry, Collins has for
his book An Untold Story: The Roo-
years been plagued by a series of
sevelts of Hyde Park. The surgeon rec-
odd rumors, including one that Collins
ommended extensive massage. While
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both Roosevelt's wife and best friend
spent countless hours doing exactly
what the doctor ordered, FDR showed
no signs of improvement.
Finally, the family managed to con-
,. tact a Dr. Samuel A.
Levine. He didn't even
need to see FDR
before pronouncing
his diagnosis. Hearing
the symptoms alone
were enough for him
; to know exactly what
Roosevelt had con-
tracted: polio.

