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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident Donald Trump is in 'exceptional health,' his doctor says, after visit to Walter Reed

WASHINGTON (AP)
President Donald Trump is in exceptional health, his physician said Friday after he underwent a checkup that included lab tests and preventive health assessments at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
Trump spent roughly three hours at the Bethesda, Maryland, hospital earlier Friday for what his doctor, Navy Capt. Sean Barbabella, called a scheduled follow-up evaluation that was a part of his ongoing health maintenance plan. While there, Trump also got his yearly flu shot, as well as a COVID-19 booster vaccine.
President Donald J. Trump remains in exceptional health, exhibiting strong cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological and physical performance, Barbabella wrote in a one-page memo released Friday night by the White House. The doctor noted in the memo that the evaluation helped prepare for Trumps upcoming overseas trips and included advanced imaging, lab testing and preventive health assessments.
The president is traveling to the Middle East this weekend and is scheduled to fly to Asia at the end of this month.
Barbabella also said he evaluated Trumps cardiac age, which was about 14 years younger than his chronological age. Trump is 79 and was the oldest U.S. president at his inauguration...............
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-physical-walter-reed-e4c3cd4ef5aab8e4d86d00b02a1ed710
SheltieLover
(81,715 posts)Hugin
(37,993 posts)Are they saying good or bad comments.
Trump is obviously exceptionally ignorant and greedy as well.
Personally, I believe this medical was either a remnant of the pompous Nobel victory lap that never was along with the announcement of the Qatari base in Idaho, which seemed curiously out of context in its timing. Or they were trying to get him to shut up in his demanding a med bed that hes heard about on the Internets.
walkingman
(11,157 posts)Tribetime
(7,145 posts)misanthrope
(9,629 posts)causing edema just months ago. Those issues would belie any assessment citing exceptional health.
dalton99a
(95,268 posts)"Better shut your mouth and do whatever he says"
Takket
(23,803 posts)Baitball Blogger
(52,719 posts)No surprise.
bucolic_frolic
(55,818 posts)could be a lot of things for an array of reasons
gab13by13
(32,767 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(20,982 posts)While Sec.Worm Brain continues to speak against them?
GoCubsGo
(35,000 posts)The only thing here that is "exceptional" is the lengths at which you assholes going to in order to keep that disgusting sack of shit alive, and to cover up all of his issues. Y'all can fuck right off with this bullshit. Dr. Barbabella needs to have his medical license revoked.
They really do think we're all stupid, don't they?
Tetrachloride
(9,703 posts)what about those jowls ? the pectorals ? The diapers ? The makeup ?
gab13by13
(32,767 posts)imanamerican63
(16,410 posts)He is healthy as horses ass!
Wednesdays
(23,129 posts)in all of the history of the human race.
Goonch
(5,586 posts)
According to the American Osteopathic Association, the White House confirmed that Trump selected Navy Capt. Sean Barbabella, a doctor of osteopathy, to be his official doctor.
According to A.T. Still University (ATSU), Barbabella is a 1996 graduate of ATSU's Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine.
dalton99a
(95,268 posts)Biden's White House doctor was a D.O. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician_to_the_President)
tanyev
(49,682 posts)

mucholderthandirt
(1,791 posts)republianmushroom
(22,702 posts)displacedvermoter
(4,991 posts)I bet he passed that with flying colors. I believe he is exceptionally healthy for someone with tertiary stage syphilis.
flvegan
(66,524 posts)irisblue
(37,923 posts)I'm a retired Radiologic Technologist. I personally am betting that a Positron emission tomography (PET) scans was done to identify areas of decreased brain metabolism, which is a characteristic feature of dementia.
He has a direct family history of Alzheimers.
Also some type of Cardiac studies, maybe a cardiac MRI & a MUGA scan -Multigated Acquisition (MUGA) scan is a non-invasive nuclear medicine test that assesses the function of the heart. That test is done with radioactive tracer.
W_HAMILTON
(10,438 posts)The name rings a bell...
EDIT: It was a different Sean that was lying to us at the time: Sean Conley. Here's more about it, in case anyone forgot: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/11/trump-coronavirus-ventilator-covid-illness
PCIntern
(28,582 posts)Bluestocking
(794 posts)Diamond_Dog
(41,049 posts)mwmisses4289
(4,723 posts)unblock
(56,262 posts)Clouds Passing
(8,192 posts)PCIntern
(28,582 posts)I mean, I would describe Donald Trumps mental health compared with virtually anyone Ive ever met as exceptional, inasmuch as I have never met anyone who exhibits the level of disease in the fashion in which he exhibits it. And Ive only had a total of about 60,000 patients in my lifetime.
The combination of pathologies is remarkable and almost beyond description as well as one-of-a-kind.
Blue Owl
(59,626 posts)malaise
(297,947 posts)Big loud stewwwwps
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/X81aPV-L9Bk
So he's totally dying, right?
LuckyCharms
(23,067 posts)lame54
(40,099 posts)2MuchNoise
(865 posts)Paladin
(32,354 posts)...I'm surprised he didn't emerge from Walter Reed as a member of the U.S. Olympic triathlon team. And the MAGAts would have believed it...
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