{"id":16783,"date":"2016-08-27T12:18:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T12:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16783"},"modified":"2016-08-27T13:05:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T13:05:42","slug":"now-about-that-doctors-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16783","title":{"rendered":"Now … about that doctor’s note"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As long as we’re talking about records — or the lack thereof — let’s visit briefly about that strange doctor’s note Donald J. Trump produced that proclaimed him the most physically fit presidential candidate in world history.<\/p>\n

OK, so I exaggerated that description.<\/p>\n

Trump pulled this note out in late 2015 to tell us that he is fit as a fiddle. Dr. Harold Bornstein has been the Republican presidential nominee’s physician since 1980. Now we hear that the doc wrote it in five minutes while sitting in a limo that Trump had sent for him.<\/p>\n

Some of the language that Dr. Bornstein used to describe Trump’s physical fitness for the presidency seemed, well, a bit unusual and not written in the kind of tone one expects from a medical doctor. It doesn’t read like a clinical analysis.<\/p>\n

Trump’s blood pressure is “astonishingly excellent.” His stamina is “extraordinary.”<\/p>\n

And get a load of this. According to Politico: “It begins ‘To Whom My Concerns,’ and says that Bornstein’s most recent medical examination of Trump ‘showed only positive results’ — medical terminology that usually indicates confirmation of a certain condition.”<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/08\/donald-trump-doctor-letter-227464#ixzz4IX8HKzAn<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

Trump said he would produce a “full medical report.” He showed us the\u00a0letter instead. Here it is:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/images\/uploads\/trump_health_record.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s worth mentioning here because Trump and his surrogates keep suggesting that Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton’s health isn’t up to par. A spokeswoman who lacks any medical training has diagnosed dysphasia in Clinton. Former New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani has said repeatedly that something is physically wrong with Clinton.<\/p>\n

So, here’s what we ought to do.<\/p>\n

Let’s all insist that both candidates produce detailed medical reports on their physical condition that do not contain such hysterical and flowery descriptions of the candidates’ well-being.<\/p>\n

Trump and his surrogates have started this idiotic questioning of Clinton’s health. Trump also has insisted that Barack Obama isn’t a real American and has questioned the president’s academic record.<\/p>\n

It’s time now for Donald Trump to deliver the real goods on his own physical condition.<\/p>\n

Oh, and those tax returns, too!<\/p>\n\n

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