Dr. Daniel Amen

That's like one of the taglines of my life.

How do I know unless I look?

Why are psychiatrists the only medical doctors who virtually never look at the organ they treat?

And I went, great question.

I went to the scan center and I held Andrew's hand while he held his teddy bear and got scanned.

And afterwards, my mentor, Jack Poldy, the image comes up on the computer screen.

He's missing his left temporal lobe.

And I looked at Jack.

It's the first time I've seen it.

I've seen it almost 200 times since.

He writes down, so mom won't hear, cyst, stroke, tumors.

And later that day, I got an MRI.

He had a cyst the size of a golf ball occupying the space of his left temporal lobe.

I called his pediatrician.

I said, you find somebody to take this out or drain this thing.

He called three neurologists.

All of them said they wouldn't touch the cyst.

They didn't think it had anything to do with his behavior.

And they wouldn't recommend surgery until he had real symptoms.

At which point I lost my mind and start screaming at the pediatrician.