Pic Of The Moment: Trump Reassures Nation He's Fit For Duty

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31. "...you stay in the hospital for a little while, like about six weeks, maybe..."

Says the "rich" man who doesn't know how hospitals work nor how much it costs to stay there.

I'm not saying there aren't heart conditions where people end up in there more than a month, but rarely would anyone convalesce in an actual hospital for six weeks for something mundane as a minor heart attack. Once out of danger, if necessary, they'd move them to long-term care like a nursing home for a period of time. People have already discussed how the White House has full medical capability and staff on call. Keeping a president in a hospital for that period of time would be a security nightmare for the facility.

Someone I know had a valve replaced in his heart, and he was at home within a week with home health-care checking on him for a couple more.

People used to stay in the hospital for long times in the past, but now the philosophy is they get you recovered and on your feet walking and out of there ASAP because that actually hastens recovery. They don't let you lay there for six weeks if they can help it.