2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDONALD TRUMP TESTS POSITIVE FOR EVERYTHING, ACCORDING TO HIS OWN DOCTOR
http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-health-doctor-490836There is also a website listed, but if you follow the URL (haroldbornsteinmd.com), it takes you to cdn.freefarcy.com, a blank page that asks if you want to upload an update to a Flash program onto your computer (the domain name, freefarcy.com, is still for sale. No, I cant explain that.) If you decline, it does so anyway and, based on the response of the security system on my computer, the program on the doctors supposed website is a virus.
Then, there is the doctor who allegedly signed this document. His name is Harold N. Bornstein, and he is a gastroenterologist. This kind of physician is a specialist who treats the digestive tract. This is not an internist, who is trained specifically in providing full histories and physicals of patients. The letter signed by Dr. Bornstein, who did not return an email from Newsweek seeking comment, says that he has treated Trump since 1980. However, it mentions no history of the gastrointestinal problem that led the Republican candidate for president to seek out his help. In fact, the letter says Trump has had no significant medical problems. So why has he been seeing a gastroenterologist for over 35 years?
Unlike the Clinton letter, it does not contain a full medical history for Trump. The letter also has problems with sentence structure and major typographical errors, such as the opening line, To Whom My Concern. Most amusing, it says that his medical examination of Trump has only positive results. In medical terms, if the test is positive, it confirms the existence of disease. Is this doctor saying Trump has every medical ailment that could be found in examination? Does he not know the meaning of the word? Or, as I suspect, was the letter written by someone in the Trump campaign?
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Pffffff whatever.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)enough for him!
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)She ain't having it.
ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)mind-boggling
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)grossproffit
(5,591 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Monk06
(7,675 posts)AKA the Brown Buffalo AKA Oscar "Zeta" La Costa AKA Dr Nick
liberal N proud
(60,336 posts)His PSA score is 0.15 (very low). You almost expect there to be another very or a really low comment. It just does not look professional.
ck4829
(35,077 posts)liberal N proud
(60,336 posts)No doctor wrote that.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)I hope someone tracks down Jacob Bornstein, M.D. Who knows if he is even real.
The guy who was interviewed on CNN about this (I can't remember his name, but he was just awesome) said the letterhead looked like it was made using MS Word
exboyfil
(17,863 posts)"will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency". Unless the doctor had examined every president in history, he/she cannot make that statement.
Also Jacob B. passed away in 2010. I can't imagine that the letterhead would not have been changed for five years??
maxrandb
(15,334 posts)Damn thing looks like it comes from one of those ads at the end of old Comic Books or Wrestling Magazines!
- Is Danny kicking sand in your face? Atlas is for you.
- Amazing X-Ray Glasses...see through anything!
- Need a Medical Reference? Just send a self-addressed envelope to .......
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)grossproffit
(5,591 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Hav
(5,969 posts)Laugh of the day for me. Thanks.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,209 posts)SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)Kuru? HIV? Is Trump pregnant?
Siwsan
(26,269 posts)During my working life, I was a physician credentialing coordinator, and I had to check the backgrounds, licenses, hospital privileges, insurance coverage and malpractice events for thousands of physicians.
The email being there is likely something his office manager checks.
However, gastro guys don't generally do this type of physical, unless maybe he's a family friend. Someone Trump's age would be better served being seen by a Gerontologist.
That being said, the letter does kind of read like it was composed by someone in Nigeria, who has a fortune to share.
There definitely is a Harold N Bornstein, MD who is a gastroenterologist in NY, NY. And, as I recall, Trump was joined at the mike by a doctor, who I assume was Dr. Bornstein, when he released this hilarious letter. The guy could just be so enamored by Trump that he's willing to risk his professional reputation.
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)and Gastro, and accepts patients for both services. That's quite common in NYC, where there are a lot of sub-specialty MDs vying for referrals from other docs to treat ulcers, heart disease etc. My internist is an infectious disease specialist, but also does regular internal medicine.
The physician who signed the letter is duly licensed in NYS, and has no disciplinary actions on his file according to the state agency that handles such things.
Some of the statements in the letter are downright silly - especially that last sentence - but Newsweek reporter was pretty sloppy IMO.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,202 posts)Wouldn't the removal of his bone spurs in his feet that kept him out of Vietnam be considered orthopaedic surgery?
While I wouldn't call him obese, he's certainly overweight. Several websites state his height to be 6'2" and weight to be 198. No fucking way. He's at least 220 to 230.
No doctor would say he will be the healthiest president in history. That's just bullshit. He's 70. There is no way he's healthier than presidents elected in their 40s and 50s.
tblue37
(65,408 posts)merely evidence of the problem, which is plantar fasciitis. The spurs do not need to be removed, because they don't cause pain or debilitation.
The swollen, inflamed plantar fascia can be treated conservatively with NSAIDS, foot braces, arch supports, and stretching, but if those methods don't help, surgery is an option.
BUT the surgery merely involves taking a small nick in the plantar fascia, so it isn't being inflamed by being pulled too tight. After healing, one then does stretching exercises to prevent recurrence.
I know, because I had plantar fasciitis in both feet. I healed the right foot with conservative methods, but I had to have surgery (endoscopic plantar fasciotomy) to overcome the problems with my left foot.
The heel spurs that show up on X-rays are just calcified deposits caused by the constant pulling on the heel bone by the plantar fascia. They look as though they must hurt, but they actually don't. The swollen, inflamed plantar fascia is what causes the crippling pain. If the plantar fascia is healed, the heel spurs just eventually go away on their own.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,202 posts)It's just funny that heel spurs got him a deferment from serving in Vietnam. It turns out that about 40% of people have them.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Bobbie Jo
(14,341 posts)Yes, I'm showing my age here.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Aviation Pro
(12,172 posts)..."Dr. Bornstein" has an IP and web address, but no web site per se. Interesting that he would include it in a letter head along with a Gmail address that would get flooded two seconds after the "excellent, astonishing physical condition" letter was released.
Of course fatass Trump is not healthy in spite of what this alleged gastro doc says. Let's see the results of his colonoscopy.
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)He totally wrote this himself, didn't he.
Monk06
(7,675 posts)hired him to endorse Trump Steaks You know a foody consultant with yuge credentials
Trump wrote it and paid the guy some stax of Benjamins to sign it and show up on stage
Astonishingly excellent and the highest sperm count of any presidential candidate Way higher than Hillary Clinton's
tblue37
(65,408 posts)by Trump and then incompetently printed onto a pre-signed blank page.
Monk06
(7,675 posts)while his peons attempt to get the pen to hit the paper While tweeting with his other hand
tblue37
(65,408 posts)the doctor signed a blank page, and the letter was printed sloppily onto the page as opposed to having the doctor sign a letter he himself prepared after he printed it off.
Monk06
(7,675 posts)appleannie1
(5,067 posts)Statin drugs are not prescribed unless you have high cholesterol.
central scrutinizer
(11,652 posts)My cholesterol was okay but with my family history (dad died at 37 of a heart attack, other relatives died of strokes or heart disease), my doc had me start taking statins to get it down even further.
okasha
(11,573 posts)Current practice is not to give statins unless the patient has already had a heart attack. They won't affect the first one, but can help prevent a second.
Hav
(5,969 posts)10/10 trolling. Reading this, you can almost see Trump chuckling while he wrote that for his amusement at night, believing that no one would take his run seriously. His campaign had to spend hours to persuade him to delete "I can state unequivocally, he would be the most well endowed President ever" from the draft.
appleannie1
(5,067 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)Native
(5,942 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)and NOTHING from CNN
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)pressure is only 110/65? For real?