Viacom’s Sumner Redstone Stirs Duel Among Doctors

Reuters: Doctors Stephen Read and James Spar are colleagues at UCLA’s medical school and go-to court experts on the evaluation of mental fitness in the elderly. Now, in the high-stakes battle over the mental competence of Viacom chief Sumner Redstone, the two doctors are on opposite sides. At issue in a Los Angeles County probate court is whether the 92-year-old media mogul knew what he was doing when he changed a document known as an advance healthcare directive.