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Wicked Blue

(5,802 posts)
Thu Feb 16, 2023, 07:06 PM Feb 2023

Biden remains 'healthy, vigorous,' doctor says after physical exam

Source: Washington Post

President Biden remains “a healthy, vigorous, 80-year-old male who is fit to successfully execute duties of the presidency,” his physician wrote in a memo released hours after the president underwent a routine annual physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Thursday morning.

Kevin O’Connor — who has been Biden’s primary care doctor since 2009 — wrote that the most notable update from Biden’s last physical in November 2021 was his covid-19 infection over the summer, but said the president has not experienced any lingering symptoms that could be characterized as “long covid.”

As part of the physical, Biden underwent routine skin cancer surveillance. O’Connor said one “small lesion” on the president’s chest was excised on Thursday and sent for traditional biopsy and that the results are pending. O’Connor noted that Biden spent a “good deal of time” in the sun when he was young and that he had several non-melanoma skin cancers removed before assuming the presidency.

Biden, who at age 80 is the first octogenarian president in American history, has faced repeated questions about his physical and mental fitness — inquiries that have intensified as he prepares for an expected reelection bid. He would be 82 at the start of a second term, and 86 at the end of eight years in the White House.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/16/biden-physical-exam/

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Biden remains 'healthy, vigorous,' doctor says after physical exam (Original Post) Wicked Blue Feb 2023 OP
Pdf of President Biden's current health summary: dalton99a Feb 2023 #1
TY! I don't think Dr Kevin O'Connor Cha Feb 2023 #3
+1! sheshe2 Feb 2023 #4
And he feels no need to brag about his cognitive testing, in great and repetitive detail. Siwsan Feb 2023 #2
Recommend! sheshe2 Feb 2023 #5
I wonder what BidenRocks Feb 2023 #6
Or as the Fox News headline would say: Mr.Bill Feb 2023 #7
He's in better health than most 60 year olds I know! SunSeeker Feb 2023 #8
Almost 80 and still got 'it'. Joinfortmill Feb 2023 #9
I just can't resist Javaman Feb 2023 #10
AND FU NH. no_hypocrisy Feb 2023 #11
Yes FU Nimrata Randhawa Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2023 #12
K&R Bayard Feb 2023 #13
But yet... SuperCoder Feb 2023 #14

Siwsan

(26,238 posts)
2. And he feels no need to brag about his cognitive testing, in great and repetitive detail.
Thu Feb 16, 2023, 07:22 PM
Feb 2023

How refreshing.

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