Hillary Clinton has released a new letter from her doctor declaring her to be “recovering well” from pneumonia and remaining “fit to serve as President of the United States”.
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Clinton’s doctor said that she “continues to improve” after contracting a “mild, noncontagious” form of pneumonia diagnosed on Friday, two days before she grew dizzy and was seen losing her footing while leaving a ceremony in NY for the 15th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
“Mrs. Clinton has been seen by me this year for routine care”, Clinton’s physician, Dr. Bardack, wrote in the letter published on the Democratic nominee’s official site.
Bardack included the results of various tests Clinton has had in the past month, including her cholesterol level and blood pressure.
A spokesman for Trump’s running mate Mike Pence says the IN governor plans to release records from a recent physical examination as soon as his doctor compiles the information. Instead, the Republican nominee on Wednesday provided a written summary of a recent physical exam to TV doctor Mehmet Oz during a taping of his show, which is to air on Thursday.
“I don’t know folks, do you think Hillary could stand up here for an hour?” Since then, Clinton’s dosage of Coumadin has “been adjusted as needed according to regular lab testing”, Bardack said. Her mammograms are great. Reporters were not allowed into the show, which is scheduled for broadcast Thursday. But during the taping, Trump theatrically produced what he described as the results of his physical and allowed Dr. Oz to review them, according to the brief clip that the show released. David Scheiner, who was Barack Obama’s longtime physician before he was elected president, praised this unusual move, telling the Washington Post, “Because she has had blood clots, I think in the back of the doctor’s mind was, could she possibly have pulmonary embolism?”
By the standard of past presidential contests neither candidate is levelling with voters – in 2008, GOP candidate John McCain, who at 71 was about the same age as Trump (70) and Clinton (68), released more than 1173 pages of his medical history. After Clinton stopped by her daughter’s apartment – and told the media that she was feeling better – Bardack evaluated Clinton at her home in Chappaqua, New York, and the campaign later told the media that Clinton had pneumonia.
Clinton plans to return to the campaign trail on Thursday after several days resting at her suburban NY home.
“It’s the definition of ‘damned by faint praise, ‘ a presidential contest where a vote for a candidate is less an endorsement of that candidate than a stinging rejection of his or her opponent”, said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the poll.
Nationally, the Los Angeles Times/University of Southern California tracking poll showed Mr. Trump taking a 5-point lead in a head-to-head matchup, and a Quinnipiac survey showed Mrs. Clinton clinging to a 2-point lead in a four-way race – down substantially from late August.
“His Doctor Oz charade is as completely unserious as his original joke of a letter written in five minutes”, Mook said. The letter says Kaine is in “overall excellent health”, has never smoked and has “modest” alcohol use.
The Clinton campaign did not disclose the diagnosis until the episode on Sunday.
Age is one reason that health has emerged as a campaign issue with the U.S. media latching on to the statistic that beginning with Bill Clinton’s election in 1992, the past three presidents were first elected in their 40s or 50s.
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Lemire reported from Flint, Michigan.
