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Different Takes: Lessons On Guarding Information About The President’s Health; Reckless Leaders Cost Lives

October 14, 2020

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Guarding The President’s Privacy Is Key For A White House Physician

Before deciding to take a photogenic, early-evening helicopter ride from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center back to the White House, President Trump toyed with an even more dramatic idea. He discussed wearing a Superman T-shirt under his dress clothes, coming out of the hospital looking exhausted, and then tearing off his outer shirt to reveal himself as the ever-strong Superman. Made-for-tweeting publicity stunts that are rejected can still teach us something: In this case, it is about the power of costumes and the narratives they bring with them. (George J. Annas, 10/14)

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Trump, DeSantis Put Politics Over Floridians Health

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Presidents have long lied about their health. There is only one solution.

October 14, 2020

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In 1893, President Grover Cleveland kept a secret from the public: mouth cancer. In a clandestine operation on a yacht in the East River in New York, surgeons removed the president’s left upper jaw to prevent the cancer from spreading, and replaced it with a prosthesis to hide the surgical excision. Cleveland’s brush with cancer didn’t become known until 1917, when one of his physicians published an article in the popular Saturday Evening Post. Cleveland hid his ailment out of a belief that admitting any sort of presidential incapacity would create a crisis of confidence in the country, undermining the economy and encouraging foreign adversaries to try to take advantage of the United States.

Cleveland’s deception was relatively minor compared to the liberties taken by Woodrow Wilson between 1912 and 1920. Wilson arrived in the White House in 1913 with a history of minor strokes: They had temporarily incapacitated him

Who should inform the public on the President’s health? A Yale Biomedical Ethics expert weighs in

October 13, 2020

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — We’ve seen President Donald Trump’s doctor, Navy Cmdr. Dr. Sean Conley, give updates as the president recovers from contracting COVID-19.

Yale Doctor Sarah Hull said it is appropriate for physicians to talk about medical issues.

“When discussing a more general public health issue such as the COVID pandemic in general, I think you absolutely want physicians and scientists to be leading those press conferences because we want to be taking our cues from experts in the field,” Hull said.

But Hull does not believe a physician should hold a news conference about an individual, like President Trump’s doctors did at Walter Reed Medical Center.

“I think there’s a real conflict of interest there between the physician’s duty to protect the privacy of his or her patient, and the very intention of a press conference which is to disseminate information,” Hull told News 8.

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October 11, 2020

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Over the past century, White House physicians have repeatedly deceived the public about the health of the President. In April 1944, Franklin D. Roosevelt struggled with congestive heart failure, yet his physician, Admiral Ross McIntire, told the press the President simply had the flu. President Kennedy’s medical team obscured the presence of his Addison’s disease.

The current administration has doggedly refused to disclose the reasons for President Trump’s urgent trip to Walter Reed in November 2019, and over the last two weeks, Dr. Conley has repeatedly omitted or misrepresented key data concerning the medical status of the President.

Fortunately, the 25th Amendment provides for a potential alternative for the objective assessment of the fitness of the President, permitting “such other body as Congress may by law provide.” This week, in response to the President’s emergency hospitalization and his subsequent chaotic behavior, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced a bill to create

Pelosi eyes creation of panel to determine a president’s fitness to serve

October 10, 2020

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Jamie Raskin unveiled a bill Friday that would create a standing committee to evaluate the mental or physical capacity of any sitting president.

They said the legislation was not intended to remove the current president from office before the election, but to set out a process stemming from the 25th Amendment.

“This is not about President Trump. He will face the judgment of the voters,” Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, said. “He shows the need for us to create a process for future presidents.”

“This isn’t about any judgment that anybody has about someone’s behavior. This is about a diagnosis,” she added.

The 25th Amendment provides for the transfer of presidential power in the case of removal from office, death, or disability. Congress, the president’s cabinet, and the vice president have the power to remove a president unable to serve, but it would take a

Democrats zero in on a president’s fitness for office

October 10, 2020

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WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi, amplifying questions about President Donald Trump’s fitness for office less than a month before the election, introduced legislation Friday that would create a standing bipartisan group of outside experts tasked with evaluating the president’s mental and physical health and advising Congress on whether the commander in chief’s powers should be forcibly removed under the 25th Amendment.

The measure is certain to die at the end of the year, given that it would need a presidential signature to be enacted. But Democrats’ decision to promote it now — after the president’s coronavirus diagnosis and as Pelosi has suggested that his treatment might be affecting his judgment — was an unmistakable dig at the sitting president’s capacity to govern, just weeks before voters go to the polls.

“A president’s fitness for office must be determined by science and facts,” Pelosi said at a news conference on Capitol

Pelosi introduces bill under 25th Amendment for commission to evaluate fitness of future presidents

October 10, 2020

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House Democrats introduced a bill Friday to establish an independent commission under the 25th Amendment to evaluate a president’s health and oversee the transfer of power to the vice president if the president becomes incapacitated while in office.

The provision would not apply to President Trump during his current term, but could be invoked in a second term if he is reelected.

The 25th Amendment was adopted in 1967 after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to address what happens when the president of the United States is removed, dies, is incapacitated or is otherwise unable to fulfill the powers and duties of the office.

It provides for the vice president to serve as “acting president” if the president is incapacitated — during surgery, for example. It also allows for a transfer of power if the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet find the president unable

What’s the president’s health status?

October 10, 2020

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In a video released on Twitter, President Trump talked up the benefits of an experimental antibody drug given to treat him for COVID.

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A White House memo released Thursday night announced that President Donald Trump had completed his course of therapy for COVID-19 “as prescribed by his team of physicians.” White House physician Dr. Sean Conley cleared Trump to return to public life on Saturday, 10 days since his diagnosis.

“Saturday will be day 10 since Thursday’s diagnosis, and based on the trajectory of advanced diagnostics the team has been conducting, I fully anticipate the President’s safe return to public engagements at that time,” Conley said in the memo.

Because of this memo, the Trump campaign insisted the second presidential debate, scheduled for Oct. 15, should be held in person. Earlier on Thursday the Commission on Presidential Debates said they would hold a virtual debate out of

Democrats Zero In on President’s Fitness for Office as Election Looms

October 9, 2020

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WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi, amplifying questions about President Trump’s fitness for office less than a month before the election, introduced legislation on Friday that would create a standing bipartisan group of outside experts tasked with evaluating the president’s mental and physical health and advising Congress on whether the commander in chief’s powers should be forcibly removed under the 25th Amendment.

The measure is certain to die at the end of the year, given that it would need a presidential signature to be enacted. But Democrats’ decision to promote it now — after the president’s coronavirus diagnosis and as Ms. Pelosi has suggested that his treatment might be affecting his judgment — was an unmistakable dig at the sitting president’s capacity to govern, just weeks before voters go to the polls.

“A president’s fitness for office must be determined by science and facts,” Ms. Pelosi said at a news conference

Trump outraged by Democrats’ plan to assess president’s fitness to serve

October 9, 2020

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Democrats provoked an angry tirade from Donald Trump on Friday by proposing a congressional commission to assess whether US presidents are capable of performing their duties or should be removed from office.

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The gambit came a week after Trump was flown to a military hospital for treatment for coronavirus and 25 days before an election. The president returned to the White House on Monday but has caused concern with erratic behaviour.

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“This is not about President Trump. He will face the judgment of the voters but he shows the need for us to create a process for future presidents,” Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives, told a press conference in which she also took a swipe at the British prime

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Different Takes: Lessons On Guarding Information About The President’s Health; Reckless Leaders Cost Lives

Presidents have long lied about their health. There is only one solution.

Who should inform the public on the President’s health? A Yale Biomedical Ethics expert weighs in

RELATED: President

Americans need a better way to evaluate the President’s health | Health and Fitness

Pelosi eyes creation of panel to determine a president’s fitness to serve

Democrats zero in on a president’s fitness for office

Pelosi introduces bill under 25th Amendment for commission to evaluate fitness of future presidents

What’s the president’s health status?

Democrats Zero In on President’s Fitness for Office as Election Looms

Trump outraged by Democrats’ plan to assess president’s fitness to serve