Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel and CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta both weighed in on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnellā€™s (R-KY) latest freezing incident on Wednesday and suggested what the underlying health issue could be.

On Fox Newsā€™ The Special Report with Bret Baier following the incident, Siegel noted that while he hadnā€™t examined McConnell, his best guess ā€œwould be Parkinsonā€™s disease because that, in its later stages, can give you a freeze.ā€

Gupta also raised the possibility of Parkinsonā€™s disease during an appearance on CNNā€™s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday.

ā€œThereā€™s a long list of possibilities here. I think what we saw was pretty concerning. I think most people could see that,ā€ Gupta said. ā€œIt was similar to what we saw in July where there was this freezing. Itā€™s the freezing of the speech, itā€™s the freezing of the body, itā€™s the tight sort of grasping of the side of the lectern.ā€

He continued, ā€œHis face even has this mask-like feature to it. So thereā€™s a lot of things that are going on there.ā€

Gupta argued that while McConnell could have suffered from a seizure or something similar, ā€œIt could be something like when somebody comes off of their medications for things like Parkinsonā€™s. When the medication start to wear off, they may start to have freezing episodes as well.ā€

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    both weighed in on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnellā€™s (R-KY) latest freezing incident on Wednesday and suggested what the underlying health issue could be.

    In my non-medical opinion, I would say that it looks like he suffers from "Should of fucking retired ten years ago"itis.

    This country has got to do better than keep electing these old ass dementia fuckers.