Mrs Clinton – who has been recuperating at her suburban NY home – was treated with an antibiotic called Levaquin, which she was prescribed for 10 days. The health scare had forced the 68-year-old former secretary of state to cancel campaign and fundraising trips to California and has fuelled concerns about her medical fitness less than two months to go for the November 8 election.
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Dr Bardack has evaluated the former USA secretary of state several times, including on Wednesday, after a chest scan on Friday detected her pneumonia. Clinton continued campaigning, her congestion worsened, and she developed a cough over the next several days.
Clinton’s doctor declared her healthy. The campaign plans to share the information on Thursday.
Her campaign had been pressed to be more transparent about Mrs Clinton’s health, particularly after it failed to reveal her Friday pneumonia diagnosis until Sunday, when she almost collapsed as she left the Ground Zero site in NY.
Bardack, chairwoman of Internal Medicine at CareMount Medical in Mount Kisco, N.Y., diagnosed the pneumonia after taking a CT scan of Clinton’s lungs. (Clinton is actually two years younger than the GOP presidential nominee.) He has called her “low energy” and said she likes to take naps.
Ever since presidential candidate Hillary Clinton left a 9/11 memorial event early Sunday, and footage of her appearing to stumble or even almost collapse as she entered a van hit the press, her health has dominated the political landscape. She has also had a normal mammogram and breast ultrasound, according to the letter.
The letter also notes that in January, during the run-up to the Iowa caucuses, Clinton developed a sinus and ear infection that was initially treated with antibiotics and steroids.
According to Bardack, “The remainder of her complete physical exam was normal and she is in excellent mental condition”.
Meanwhile Mr Trump’s wife Melania released a letter on Wednesday from an immigration lawyer that provided more detail on what she said was her legal pathway to USA citizenship.
Health issues have dominated the campaign trail for days.
Clinton collapsed after leaving the 9/11 Memorial Ceremony early on Sunday.
The campaign’s long delay in providing information to the media and the public prompted criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike.
Mrs Clinton has spent the past three days out of the public eye, recuperating at her suburban NY home. She’ll return to the campaign trail Thursday.
In her CNN interview earlier this week, Clinton noted that her medical disclosure is in line with what was provided by President Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, in 2012. She then fainted and suffered a concussion.
Clinton’s running-mate, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, 58, also released a physician letter on Wednesday.
Donald Trump has already received a fair bit of ridicule for an admittedly slapdash letter from his doctor declaring that the GOP nominee would, if elected, be the healthiest person in history to become president.
In a snippet teased on the site, Mehmet Oz – who is also a professor of surgery at Columbia University in NY – is seen asking Mr. Trump: “If your health is as strong as it seems. why not show your medical records?”
The campaign also released the medical details of Sen. She underwent anticoagulation therapy to dissolve a blood clot and had to wear special glasses to correct double vision for almost two months starting in late 2012.
Clinton’s vaccinations are “up to date” and include Prevnar and Pneumovax. Those are fairly standard tests, and as people age, it’s important to establish a baseline, he said.
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“I looked at them and tried to process it pretty quickly and I got to say as a doctor, if he was my patient, they are good for a man of his age”, Dr. Oz said. Her respiratory rate of 18 was the same both years, Bardack said.
