Not so astonishingly excellent after all maybe
A word to the wise: don’t piss off Donnie.
In February 2017, a top White House aide who was Trump’s longtime personal bodyguard, along with the top lawyer at the Trump Organization and a third man showed up at the office of Trump’s New York doctor without notice and took all the president’s medical records.
The incident, which Dr. Harold Bornstein described as a “raid,” took place two days after Bornstein told a newspaper that he had prescribed a hair growth medicine for the president for years.
Yes that would do it. We’re supposed to pretend he has a full head of gorgeous blond hair, kind of a young Robert Redford look.
In an exclusive interview in his Park Avenue office, Bornstein told NBC News that he felt “raped, frightened and sad” when Keith Schiller and another “large man” came to his office to collect the president’s records on the morning of Feb. 3, 2017. At the time, Schiller, who had long worked as Trump’s bodyguard, was serving as director of Oval Office operations at the White House.
Well not raped, because seizing paperwork isn’t the same as rape, but scared and intimidated yes.
A framed 8-by-10 photo of Bornstein and Trump that had been hanging on the wall in the waiting room now lies flat under a stack of papers on the top shelf of Bornstein’s bookshelf. Bornstein said the men asked him to take it off the wall.
I’m pretty sure they had no right to enforce that.
Bornstein said the original and only copy of Trump’s charts, including lab reports under Trump’s name as well as under the pseudonyms his office used for Trump, were taken.
That seems like a gross violation of the public’s right to know the truth about Trump’s health.
Bornstein said that Trump cut ties with him after he told The New York Times that Trump takes Propecia, a drug for enlarged prostates that is often prescribed to stimulate hair growth in men. Bornstein told the Times that he prescribed Trump drugs for rosacea and high cholesterol as well.
Too bad there’s not a drug for meanness or stupidity or greed or dishonesty.
Bornstein, 70, had been Trump’s personal doctor for more than 35 years.
During Trump’s presidential campaign, Bornstein wrote a letter declaring “unequivocally” that Trump would be the healthiest president in history. He called Trump’s health “astonishingly excellent.” The Trump campaign released the letter in December 2015.
Bornstein told NBC News in 2016 that he wrote the note in just five minutes while a limo sent by the candidate waited outside his office.
To the surprise of absolutely no one.
Updating to add breaking news item (also surprising to no one):
Breaking: President Trump dictated 2015 letter his doctor wrote declaring him the “healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency” says letter’s author Dr. Harold Bornstein. “He dictated that whole letter. I didn't write that letter," Bornstein told CNN’s @MarquardtA
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) May 1, 2018
It gets better:
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/01/politics/harold-bornstein-trump-letter/index.html
https://www.facebook.com/144310995587370/photos/a.271728576178944.71555.144310995587370/1901045236580595/?type=3&theater
Trump’s doctor has a HIPPA duty to not release his patients’ medical information. He should be charged, not raided.
The worse the better…
“Too bad there’s not a drug for meanness or stupidity or greed or dishonesty.
Theoretically, there’s a homeopathic remedy for this. Unfortunately, a dilution of the meanness, stupidity and greed that doesn’t immediately burn through its container would require the entire water content of the Multiverse.
That’s going to take an awful lot of laboratory glassware.
Not Bruce;
By the ‘law of similars,’ a treatment for meanness, stupidity, greed, and dishonesty, would have to be extracted from Donnie himself. Probably a hair-clipping would do.
From Quackwatch:
A 30X dilution means that the original substance has been diluted 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times. Assuming that a cubic centimeter of water contains 15 drops, this number is greater than the number of drops of water that would fill a container more than 50 times the size of the Earth. Imagine placing a drop of red dye into such a container so that it disperses evenly. Homeopathy’s “law of infinitesimals” is the equivalent of saying that any drop of water subsequently removed from that container will possess an essence of redness. Robert L. Park, Ph.D., a prominent physicist who is executive director of The American Physical Society, has noted that since the least amount of a substance in a solution is one molecule, a 30C solution would have to have at least one molecule of the original substance dissolved in a minimum of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules of water. This would require a container more than 30,000,000,000 times the size of the Earth.
The doctor’s office visit, and Sarah Sanders’ defense of it as normal operating procedure, brings to mind the odd wording in White House doctor Ronny Jackson’s news conferences:
“So no, I’m not withholding anything, and I have reviewed the President’s past medical records to the extent that they’ve been made available to me and there’s nothing at all that’s concerning to me.”
“I have reviewed the President’s past medical records to the extent that they’ve been made available to me…”. The records were taken from the NYC doctor’s office last year. They were seized and the original copies removed rather than copies made as is usual. So the phrase “to the extent that they’ve been made available to me” suggests Jackson didn’t have some (at least) of Trump’s past medical records. Where are they? The odd phrasing there, ambiguous.
It might just be Bornstein’s somewhat ambiguous wording, but is he the last doctor in the developed world to not have computerised records? It does read as though Trump’s goons only took paper records.
#3 tgt
I agree that a doctor must keep patient details confidential, and so is in breach of patient confidentiality requirements by talking about a patient’s health in public. However, how do we square that with the fact that this particular patient is the President, whose health is of great public concern? Is the doctor expected to give a clean bill of health to the public regardless of his actual health?