2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum"I’m A Doctor. Here’s What I Find Most Concerning About Trump’s Medical Letter"
Dr Jennifer Gunter
"Many outlets have picked it apart, but I want to tell you as a doctor exactly how bad it is. I would never write anything this terrible for a jury duty excuse or a back to work note, never mind something that half the country (and possibly half the world) might see or could possibly end up one day in a presidential library!
There are so many issues with the letter ...
1. The header has a non-working web address, and doctors dont include e-mail addresses in letters.
2. Lennox Hill has a Division of Gastroenterology, not a Section, and Dr. Bornstein isnt listed on the website as a member.
3. The letter starts with a typo To whom my concern instead of may concern.
4. No doctor describes tests as only positive results or astonishingly excellent. "Only positive results is gibberish.
5. Doctors dont say test score we just give the results.
6. How did Dr. Bornstein test Donald Trumps strength and stamina?
7. The healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.
Its a terrible letter.
Did Dr. Bornstein write it? If so he should be embarrassed. Its medically illiterate.
For a fuller explanation of the above points, read more at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-gunter/im-a-doctor-heres-concerning-trumps-medical-letter_b_11565838.html
DanTex
(20,709 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)DanTex
(20,709 posts)Lithos
(26,403 posts)Nothing else matters!
AllyCat
(16,177 posts)Melania's speech.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)excellent" lab test results. And an "all positive" examination -- i.e., this person has everything wrong with him.
Seriously, no physician or medical office staffer wrote this profoundly clueless letter. If the author had a psychiatrist, a copy of it would be added to his file.
montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)I thought he had worked so hard to avoid all that stuff in the Vietnam Era.
Beartracks
(12,807 posts)... and written by someone trying to sound doctor-y.
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Xipe Totec
(43,889 posts)central scrutinizer
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|uppityperson
(115,677 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)"To whom MY concern:"
His mind never manages to get very far from himself.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,173 posts)In other words, grossly unqualified in anything he proclaims to be experienced at.
treestar
(82,383 posts)mean Donald has everything he was tested for!
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)kerry-is-my-prez
(8,133 posts)Poor guy..... They'd better hospitalize him now.
Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)Not true. I give all of my patients a letter grade on their test results. Who needs "positive" or "negative" or specific lab values, when you can give someone a B+ on their cholesterol test?
In all seriousness, I've never heard any health care professional ever use the term "test scores" before. "Results", "values", "findings" are all common terms. "Test scores" is unusual, unless you are talking about some psychological tests looking at things like cognitive functioning. I don't know much about this story but my opinion on some of the terminology used in that letter is that it sounds very odd.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Doctor Jack. The content and terminology are totally whackadoodle. Or as a more responsible person might say, it calls the author's credibility into serious question.
I'd give Trump an F for the paper, but grading on a curve just for him, a B. He did write in complete sentences, and that must have taken some effort.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Sadly.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)tavernier
(12,376 posts)As a nurse of forty years, I'm very familiar with written communication between physicians, patients, legal representatives, etc.
As a mother and grandmother of several generations, I'm very familiar with letters written by a nine year old child.
As you correctly point out, Mr. Trump's letter is medically illiterate.
Ford_Prefect
(7,882 posts)At least now we know who he copied his home-work from, right?
For what it may be worth I do not think Trump authored this. I believe he has a think-tank of failed television writers quartered in northern NJ that spends all its time making up stuff like this along with 1/2 the loony slogans he rolls out at interviews.
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)...signed,
Epstein's mother
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)Really. Mr Trump is a mess.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)this thread, got several laughs.
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)The voice in the letter, the idiotic superlatives, the sheer lunacy of any doctor writing this way. Are we sure it isn't a great joke on the Trumpster?
Dworkin
(164 posts)Hi,
How is it possible that this is even happening? There are millions of people working hard every day to get things right; there are schools, universities, businesses held in high regard, and this letter has been put forward in a US presidential election?
If this letter turned up in any job application process it would go in the waste bin.
If Trump is not exposed and removed from this process, the whole US democratic system is damaged, and I fear that it is damaged already.
D.
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)Appalling even, but I doubt anything else will come of it.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)mainer
(12,022 posts)It's like a hostage on TV, trying to blink a secret message to the world. Bornstein's blinking "SOS don't vote for this crazy man."