White House aide says physician withheld health specifics to lift Trump's spirits

[BlueWavePsych]

Source: Axios

White House communications director Alyssa Farah said Sunday that White House physician Sean Conley withheld specific details at Saturday's press briefing about Donald Trump's medical condition in order to "convey confidence" and "raise the spirits" of the president.

Conley and the White House have come under intense criticism after Chief of Staff Mark Meadows provided an anonymous statement to reporters on Saturday saying that Trump had a "very concerning" period on Friday, contradicting the more rosy assessment Conley had provided in a television briefing just moments earlier.

Pressed by Axios' Alayna Treene at a briefing earlier on Sunday, Conley said he was "trying to reflect the upbeat attitude that the team, the president, his course of illness has had."

"I didn't want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction, and in doing so, you know, it came off that we were trying to hide something, which wasn't necessarily true," Conley added.


Read more: https://www.axios.com/white-house-conley-trump-oxygen-69e7e956-6b73-494a-aec7-45f82006c6b3.html

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Sounds familiar ...



'I don't want to create panic': Trump defends coronavirus remarks he made to Bob Woodward – video
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2020/sep/09/trump-coronavirus-bob-woodward-book-rage

This time lying to Drumpf and the rest of the world at the same time. Seems infectious.

[tulipsandroses]

1. More lies. That's bullshit! Trump told him to lie. Under the bus, Conley goes

What a croc of shit!

[BlueWavePsych]

3. Gets worse ... Trump's medical team briefing reveals things are worse than we knew

The president had trouble breathing Saturday morning and had started a drug used only for severe or critical cases of Covid-19.

President Donald Trump’s doctors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center revealed Sunday that the president’s condition is more serious than the White House has so far acknowledged.

“I didn’t want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction,” Sean Conley, the president’s physician, told reporters during a hospital briefing. “In doing so, it came off that we were trying to hide something, which wasn’t necessarily true.”

The decision to give Trump dexamethasone shows that “he’s actually having effects on his lungs from the virus,” said Abraar Karan, an internal medicine doctor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/04/covid-19-trump-medical-team-briefing-426025

[soothsayer]

2. How does it make any sense? The president knew he was on oxygen. How would it lift his spirits to kn

Link to tweet

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Jennifer Taub
@jentaub
How does it make any sense? The president knew he was on oxygen. How would it lift his spirits to know that the public was being lied about the oxygen. Wouldn’t that make him more worried that it was serious?

Josh Campbell
@joshscampbell
White House communication director says a reason the President's doctor was not forthcoming during a globally-televised press conference about the health of the most powerful person in the world is because the doc wanted to lift Trump's spirits, which she calls a common practice.

[Chemisse]

7. Lying makes him happy. n/y

[Solly Mack]

4. Yeah, right. Trump is on the roof then?

LMAO.

How long would they wait to tell Trump he's dead? So as to not dampen his spirit.

[XanaDUer2]

5. Lmao!

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[GB_RN]

6. This Is All BS

They said his blood O2 dropped below 95% (causing the trip to Walter Reed) and below 93%, causing them to give dexamethasone. Major, MAJOR bullshit. In the hospital, outside of a procedural or emergency setting, we don't give O2 unless a patient is BELOW 90%. They wouldn't give dexamethasone unless he was below 90%, for an extended period of time and supplemental O2 wasn't helping. And, they usually have to have pneumonia to get dexamethasone, as those are the patients it’s been shown to help. Everything they've said is either a gross misstatement or outright lie.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. That's Probably Why The Reporter Asked...

...if the Blood O2 got into the 80s. That's was when his reply was "...never in the low 80s...". Although that wasn't the question. The reporter might have gotten info like you just provided. It would make sense to ask about " in the 80s."
Good info, GB.

[GB_RN]

13. My Pleasure

Most people don't know or understand this (or any) medical terminology, so I wanted to provide it for people here. I mean, you can be sitting in your chair at home and be between 95-100% O2 saturation. Hard exercise, like running, and you're obviously going to be lower - but that's not a medical emergency unless you pass out.

So, for reference: Normal blood oxygen level 95-100%*
Low normal blood O2: 90-94%*
Below 90% is considered "Desaturated". You may hear that the patient "is desating".

*Now, an exception to the rule for this is for patients with COPD (emphysema/chronic bronchitis): Their blood oxygen levels can be considered "normal" at around 88%. And we DON'T give extra O2 to get them back into the 90s, because due to the mechanism of COPD, that will actually shut down their drive to breathe. This may be more info than people want, but there it is anyway. 😁

[Steelrolled]

14. The president is not your average patient and standard rules don't apply.

He is surrounded by doctors, and I imagine that any treatment that might help and will not harm, would be considered. As you probably know, doctors break standard rules all the time, even with normal patients.

[GB_RN]

15. Meadows Already Gave Away The Game

He already said his vitals were "concerning" and that's why he was sent to WRH. He was on O2 before he walked out to Marine 1 (likely because he had to have it in order to be ABLE to walk out).

Everyone in the WH - and Dolt45 - is pissed at Meadows for making that statement. So here's my take: If Meadows was lying, then no one would be pissed at him; they'd have played along. Then, low and behold! tRump recovers super quick!

[TNNurse]

8. Translation: I lie, you cannot believe anything I say.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. What happened to anti-science pro-Darwinism?

Shoe's on the other foot when they're the ones who are sick.

[Baclava]

10. He was clinically depressed? Running in circles crying he was gonna die? Need videos

[IronLionZion]

12. What will really lift his spirits is to meet with Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham

indoors without masks and talk very closely for a long time about how to own the libs

[TeamPooka]

16. Making a lot of excuses for corruption.

[pat_k]

17. "which wasn't necessarily true" equals "we were probably trying to hide something" (nt)

Not "necessarily true" = probably (but maybe not) true.

In other words, we were probably trying to hide something.

[scipan]

18. Pneumonia likely.

He had low O2 and was having trouble breathing. It's not a stretch to think he has pneumonia.

[TryLogic]

19. Looking for a place to post this. Here seems reasonable.

Something needs to be done about misinformation that affects health, safety, or national security.

Free speech is, of course, very important to the survival of a democracy, but too much of a good thing can be a serious problem. Our democracy is currently in serious danger because of misinformation. Surely it is possible to outlaw public dissemination of false or misleading information that endangers health, safety, or national security.

We must not let a rigid, irrational, overly literal interpretation of the First Amendment lead to our downfall.