Exclusive: Pence's doctor alerted WH aides about Ronny Jackson concerns last fall
Source: CNN
Updated 6:50 PM ET, Mon April 30, 2018
Washington (CNN)Vice President Mike Pence's physician privately raised alarms within the White House last fall that President Donald Trump's doctor may have violated federal privacy protections for a key patient -- Pence's wife, Karen -- and intimidated the vice president's doctor during angry confrontations over the episode.
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The detailed memos provide a vivid account of both the incident and Jackson's alleged actions afterwards.
In one of two tense encounters described in the memos, Jackson made the vice president's doctor feel uncomfortable with his "accusatory" tone, "unprofessionalism" and "intimidating" and "aggressive" behavior during their private meetings. Jackson told the doctor to "let the issue go" and to "let things go ... if I am to succeed in my career," the physician wrote.
"This meeting summoned by Dr. Jackson appears to have been in retribution for me verbalizing concerns over the protection of the SLOTUS' medical information and his inappropriate involvement in the decision-making process of her care, which is consistent with previous behavior that I have received from him in the past," the memo says, referring to the second lady of the United States. "This unprofessionalism fosters a negative command climate that removes any opportunity for open, professional discussion."..............
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/30/politics/karen-pence-doctor-privacy-ronny-jackson/index.html
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riversedge
(71,041 posts)Seems like personality problems may be part of the problem. ????
"Jackson and the vice president's physician have long had a "strained relationship," according to a former White House medical official".
mpcamb
(2,903 posts)At those levels any breech is enough to lose your position over, squabble or not.
DeminPennswoods
(15,363 posts)nt
madaboutharry
(40,285 posts)I wouldn't get along with him either.
groundloop
(11,649 posts)politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)not the Democratic Senator Jon Tester. So when does Trump apologize to the Senator from Montana for standing by the Pence family?
Mr.Bill
(24,442 posts)more than you may think. I volunteer at a hospital and am married to a retired RN, and I've seen/heard things that are not seen by most of the public.
Doctors by nature can be very egotistical, and can rub each other the wrong way. They sometimes will not accept the views of another doctor that are in an authority positon over them. It can actually get pretty nasty behind the scenes. Doctors do get fired from hospitals, and it happens more than you might think.
Major Nikon
(36,863 posts)We are getting a more complete picture that suggests Jackson was a reckless alcoholic and the WH knew it, yet nominated him anyway.
Mr.Bill
(24,442 posts)chillfactor
(7,610 posts)fierywoman
(7,746 posts)gibraltar72
(7,538 posts)bring Mother home a present she wasn't expecting. I have no evidence of that but I just like to think he would do something like that. Maybe something from one of those awful sweaty athletic Olympians he was so obsessed with.
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onecent
(6,096 posts)Haven't heard his name mentioned in a year...and here it goes.
Maggot Monster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SunSeeker
(52,219 posts)I mean, how embarrasing a condition could Mother possibly have...unless Pence gave her an STD?
onecent
(6,096 posts)magicarpet
(14,830 posts)SunSeeker
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More_Cowbell
(2,193 posts)You know it has to be SOMETHING.
Girard442
(6,148 posts)Imagine how the press would go full-on orgasmic with that line in a Clinton administration.
SunSeeker
(52,219 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)😂
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,345 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)TomCADem
(17,394 posts)I bet that Trump secretly would like Pence to resign and replace him with Ivanka.
Girard442
(6,148 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,527 posts)wanting to stick his nose into the care of all big-shot patients. Sort of matches up with tRump's ego.
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Mr. Sparkle
(2,984 posts)No wonder Trump likes him so much!
Sampan
(121 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)How full of shxt DT is, attacking Tester with, and claiming he failed , and all those service people who came forward dt claims were liars. So trump wants to know who they were so he can get his revenge against them , and send a message for others to keep their mouths shut. typical liar dt knew the dr was incompetent, but easily manipulated for his own use. Dt's claims he was good is as phony as everything else he claims, and as the FACTS come out it'll show dt is a fraud and liar, again.
enid602
(8,769 posts)Keepers creepers!!! You mean to tell me this doctor violated Mother?