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Visited a great family of a young man under major surgery at the amazing Walter Reed Medical Center. Those are truly some of the best doctors anywhere in the world. Also began phase one of my yearly physical. Everything very good (great!). Will complete next year.
Trump on Twitter.
He went to a hospital to visit a veteran having major surgery and support his or her family, and then had a routine medical check up?
Dr. Sanjay Gupta
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We know that Trump is 73 years old, has heart disease and is clinically obese. For any man of that age and medical history, an unexpected visit to the hospital is concerning.
Over the past week, I have spoken to doctors who've previously worked at the White House and those who are currently in touch with the White House. They all say that what happened last weekend is unusual: an unscheduled hospital visit for what was characterized as very routine testing -- testing that could have been done at the White House.
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Given that the White House had previously given plenty of advance notice about the President's past physical exams, last weekend's visit to Walter Reed reportedly took everyone by surprise, including much of the staff at the hospital itself. Whenever the President is planning a visit to Walter Reed, an institution-wide notice goes out, making staff aware of certain road and corridor closings. According to a person familiar with the matter, that didn't happen last weekend.
Also striking: the fact that the president's physician, Dr. Sean Conley, rode with Trump in the presidential motorcade. Typically, the doctor rides separately from the President for security reasons. A former White House doctor told me it had never happened during their time there.
He has been driving around with his personal doctor and made an unannounced, unscheduled, and unplanned trip to a hospital to allegedly have tests done that the physician that drives around with him could have done in his home where they had been.
For some reason it was immediately announced that: "Despite some of the speculation, The President has not had any chest pain, nor was he evaluated or treated for any urgent or acute issues. Specifically, he did not undergo any specialized cardiac or neurologic evaluations". With Trump it is always more likely that the opposite of what he says is true and there is absolutely no way any reasonable person would expect him to be honest about this, and it isn't the first time he had a doctor lie for him, as he had his family doctor say that a geriatric morbidly obese man with heart disease is the healthiest man to every be president when the guy before him was literally way healthier and in better shape, not morbidly obese, less disease on heart, etc. Glot will except this, but with those whose brains are functional this doesn't past muster.
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For starters, all the tests Conley described could've been performed at the White House instead of the hospital. Many blood tests require the patient to fast overnight and are thus performed first thing in the morning -- not in the middle of the afternoon, as apparently happened with the President.
And remember, the President had these tests just nine months ago. One of the reasons doctors wait a year to order labs for a routine physical is to better assess the impact of medication and lifestyle changes over a consistent interval of time. There is no benefit to drawing the blood early, unless there is a concern about something.
In Conley's memo, he described the visit as a "routine, planned interim checkup," not a "physical exam." Dr. Jennifer Peña, who served as a physician to Vice President Mike Pence until 2018, told CNN's Jeremy Diamond that these two characterizations are significantly different.
"Routine annual is where we do a comprehensive history and physical exam, with any necessary labs and studies," she said, while noting that an "interim checkup" suggests a "follow up" visit for a condition or medication that is being monitored.
So what was this stop to the ER essentially about?
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This post was edited by Skinned on Nov 24 2019 08:52am
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