Hillary Clinton’s doctor has released a letter detailing the US Democratic presidential candidate’s health, saying she is recovering well from pneumonia and is fit to lead the country.
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“The remainder of her complete physical exam was normal and she is in excellent mental condition”, Bardack, chair of internal medicine at CareMount Medical in Mount Kisco, New York, concluded, according to the release by the campaign.
Clinton is now taking antibiotics to help her recover from the illness and is planning to return to the campaign trail on Thursday.
The two-page letter, made public on Wednesday, says she’s recovering from a bout of pneumonia and her vital signs are all within the normal range.
That aside, Ms Clinton is reportedly healthy for her age, 68, with blood pressure of 100/70 and low cholesterol.
In addition to the antibiotics for her pneumonia, Clinton takes three regular medications – Armour Thyroid, used to treat hypothyroidism and other thyroid disorders; Coumadin, which can prevent and treat blood clots; and Clarinex, an allergy medication – and vitamin B-12 as needed.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. Hillary Clinton is healthy and fit to serve as president, her doctor said in a letter on the U.S. Democratic candidate’s medical condition provided by the campaign on Wednesday.
Trump, 70, has faced calls to release a more exhaustive version of his medical history, after medical experts called into question the legitimacy of a hastily written assessment Bornstein issued a year ago, that asserted Trump “will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency”.
Concerns over Clinton’s health were raised after video showed she seemingly “collapsed” as she was leaving a 9/11 memorial event early due to “overheating”. For 90 minutes after her abrupt departure, the campaign offered no information on Clinton’s whereabouts – and it was many hours later before the campaign revealed the pneumonia diagnosis, which had come on Friday. Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook drew a contrast between Clinton’s extensive letter from her physician and Trump’s way of releasing his health history.
The Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump discussed his health records on The Dr. Oz Show.
The letter from Clinton’s doctor made no mention of her weight, a key part of any medical exam, nor did a similar letter released past year. The letter did not state when she received those vaccines.
The incident also came after footage of Clinton coughing on the campaign trail fed into already existing conspiracy theories regarding her health. She has also had a normal mammogram and breast ultrasound.
The show does not air until Thursday and the campaign declined to immediately disclose the results. She said she thought she “could power through It”, but that “didn’t work out so well”.
Details of the examination were not immediately available, but show executives said “as all physicians do when seeing a patient for the first time, Dr. Oz took Mr. Trump through a full review of systems”, including reviewing his hormone levels and cardiovascular health.
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“It’s fair to say the public now knows more about Hillary Clinton than almost anyone in public life”, said campaign manager Robby Mook in a statement. In it, Trump gives Dr. Mehmet Oz two letters showing the results of medical tests conducted last week.
