Dream Doctor Diagnosed With Disease

Today's New York Times reports that radio host Charles McPhee has Lou Gehrig's disease. The former "Dream Doctor" heard on KBEE-FM "B98.7" and KUTR until this past summer was initially diagnosed with the disease in June after listeners began to hear noticeable slurring. "His presentation was suffering and no one knew why," Patrick Fant, of affiliate KFNC-FM, told the Times. McPhee and Cumulus Media tried to continue to show using text-to-speech technology from Model Talker, but canceled the idea when the outcome sounded too "robotic and zombie-like." The show will end October 21. Read the article in it's entirety from The New York Times.