Oz used a letter from Trump’s doctor as a point of discussion, and the campaign released that letter in the morning before the show aired.
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Donald Trump releases medical records for the first time to Dr. Oz on The Dr. Oz Show.
Donald Trump on Thursday released the results of his recent medical test, with his personal physician saying that the 70-year-old Republican presidential candidate is in “excellent physical health”.
According to the letter from Dr Bornstein, who has been Trump’s doctor for 36 years, Trump has only been hospitalised once – when his appendix was taken out aged 11.
Clinton releases health info Also Wednesday, the Clinton team released a second letter from her physician, Dr. Lisa R. Bardack, that gave current health details.
It’s a line Trump lifted this week, after Clinton said at a fundraiser that half of Trump’s supporters fit into a “basket of deplorables”, including racists and xenophobes. Trump even told Oz that he tries “to stay out of the sun for the most part” when asked if he’s had issues with his skin.
Interestingly enough, another audience member told MSNBC’s Jesse Rodriguez that the Republican admitted he loved fast food because “at least you know what they are putting in it”.
Trump said that he sometimes plays golf with New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.
“I have to be very boring for you”, Trump said.
The GOP nominee’s campaign released the one-page summary from Dr. Harold Bornstein, an internist and gastroenterologist at Lenox Hill Hospital, on the same day an interview with controversial TV host Dr. Mehmet Oz is airing.
Trump insisted on the show that he’s in good health and said he has the stamina of a much younger person.
‘His calcium score in 2013 was 98. His cardiac evaluation included a transthoracic echocardiogram on December 16, 2014.
NHS guidelines suggest Trump would be in the healthy BMI range of 18.5-25 if he lost 4st 3lbs. His testosterone is 441.6′.
“He takes a lipid lowering agent (rosuvastatin) and a low dose aspirin”. Donald Trump talked about his brother Fred Trump, who died in his 40s and struggled with alcoholism, as well as their father, Fred Trump, who died when he was 93 and had Alzheimer’s disease in his later years.
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A preliminary report from Clinton’s doctor this week revealed bacterial pneumonia, steroid treatments and a history of sinus infections.
