> Why should they?  After all, kids are born every day with CP.  As
> callous as this may sound, and it's certainly not meant callously, pediatric
> medicine has a much higher emotional factor than adult or even more so,
> geriatric, medicine.  Medical practice and research is market-driven,

Kyle,

       Another emotional factor is CP can't be "cured". Many folks in
medicine do not want to fight an uphill hill battle, with few dramatic results.

       Speaking of jaded icons, I saw Jerry Lewis on Bill O'Reilly last night
and the man was grotesque and off his rocker. He implied he had had an affair
with Marilyn Monroe and denied Bobby or Jack Kennedy had!! It didn't help
that he was bloated from "treatment" for some lung condition and was hughmongous!

Bobby