and it indicates his mental health is severely impaired. Other than that we know nothing about his physical health other than what we can see. He's obese and seems to have terrible skin.

My father was a cardiologist/internist for a little less than 50 years. I worked in his medical office for 15 years as a medical file clerk, medical secretary, EKG technician, and medical assistant. I learned a lot.

With regard to Trump's alleged doctor, why would he choose a gastroenterologist instead of a primary care, internist, or a cardiologist? A gastroenterologist primarily concentrates on the digestion and elimination systems. You generally are not under the care of this specialist for almost 40 years. You go because your primary care/internist sees a condition that needs temporary attention, usually a matter of months unless you have a serious or chronic condition like ulcers or diverticulitis that needs management.

An internist by contrast is like a primary care physician who knows more about complex illnesses and conditions. https://www.acponline.org/about-acp/about-internal-medicine
You can either see your internist once a year for your complete physical or be monitored weekly or less often for situations like monitoring your pro thrombin time (clotting time for your blood) or controlled asthma. An internist will send you for a consultation when it's something that demands special medical protocol that s/he lacks.

It would have been more credible if Trump had his internist send a general assessment.

When letters for patients' health status were drafted, they were basic, without fanfare. It was a medical status quo. A doctor would merely endorse that it was safe, for example, for a patient with a heart condition to fly or go on a cruise or go in a hot tub. Nothing would be revealed regarding results of blood or lab tests unless it was correspondence to another doctor. And certainly one patient would not be rated "the healthiest" overall of the doctor's patients even if it were meant to be rhetoric. You just don't put that down on paper.


And BTW, judging by Trump's weight, abdominal girth, and moon facies, he should be consulting an endocrinologist for his thyroid.

He was the local one accepting new patients when I got this health plan. He's just a gateway to repeat prescriptions for basic medication to me, which at this point is all I need.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

The wording is the same repetitive, limited vocabulary, dramatic language he always uses.

I'm familiar with medical documents, and this letter had me guffawing the first time I read it.

I just have an image of his satisfied nods to himself as he cluelessly dictated all this extravagant trumpishness.

Oh, my...

[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.[/center][/font][hr]

maybe she can issue a form letter

HAving a specialist as a GP isn't that much of a problem, although it would suggest that Trump had a gastrointestinal problem not mentioned in the letter.

He's like a walking flea market sale.

maybe that 's why he goes to a GI doc.

"Mr. Trump has got like really good health records from like when he was twenty. But he has a heart of a pigs ass, you should see that thing. His blood pressure is 180 over screwed. He is not 21, 22 or 23 years old anymore. He ain't 31, 32 or 33 years old anymore. He can't do the things he used to do you understand. You wanna know how many good years Mr. Trump has? I was thinking two."

thanks to dana carvey for the comedy.

the way his campaign is going.

Wait 'til the days before and after the debates - and when he loses the election? wow, not enough omeprazole and Maalox in the world to kill that heartburn.

When I first read the thing I burst out laughing. No way a physician would ever write such a thing.