Hillary Clinton is healthy and fit to serve as president, her doctor says in a letter on the US Democratic candidate’s medical condition provided by her campaign.
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The release comes on the same day that Republican nominee Donald Trump shared some details about his own health with Dr. Mehmet Oz, on Oz’s eponymous TV show. Clinton’s doctor, Lisa Bardack, wrote on Wednesday that she was recovering from her pneumonia. She was treated with Levaquin, an antibiotic, for 10 days.
Bardack also wrote on Wednesday that Clinton is “up to date” on her vaccinations and has normal mammogram and breast ultrasound. Her blood pressure and cholesterol levels are “good” or “excellent” and place her at low risk for illness for a woman her age, the doctors said. 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. Hillary’s team made a decision to reveal what we already know: That’s she’s been stricken with pneumonia, she’s on antibiotics, and she’s fit to be president. “She continues to remain healthy and fit to serve as President of the United States”, Dr. Bardack’s note reads, according to the Los Angeles Times. That letter also detailed Ms. Clinton’s 2012 concussion, which Dr. Bardack said was resolved within two months.
Vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine is in “overall excellent health”, according to a letter the campaign also released Wednesday from his doctor, Brian Monahan, the attending physician of Congress. “She was advised to rest”, according to the letter, “put on a short course of antibiotics and continued on her allergy medications for an upper respiratory tract infection in the setting of her seasonal allergies”, but the condition worsened.
Trump, too, has said he plans to release the details of a recent physical this week.
When the Democratic nominee stumbled leaving an event honoring the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in NY on Sunday, her campaign initially blamed the heat, saying Clinton had become “overheated”. Her campaign’s transparency has also come under fire for not disclosing her pneumonia diagnosis before September 11.
Clinton plans to return to the campaign trail on Thursday after several days resting at her suburban NY home.
Jesse Lehrich, a foreign policy spokesman for Clinton, swiped at Trump Wednesday over his call last month for the candidates to release more medical information.
Edward Geltman, a cardiologist at Washington University’s School of Medicine, said the information released shows her to be healthy, with normal range for vitals. In recent months, Clinton has had a noticeable persistent cough on the campaign trail.
“Obviously I should have gotten some rest sooner”, Clinton said on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 on Monday.
“I don’t know why they are saying this”, she said.
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“Every time I think about Trump I get allergic”, she joked in front of the crowd. “I think on the one hand, it is part of the wacky strategy, just say all these insane things and maybe you can get some people to believe you”.
