Wednesday, May 02, 2018

A question for three physicians

Dr. Andrew Kumpuris

Dr. Kenneth Cooper

Dr. David Scheiner

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Three physicians.  All of whom share a fairly unique distinction.  All of them were the last physician to examine and report on the health of a man who was running for and elected to the presidency of this nation.  They reported on the health of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barrack Obama, respectively.

Why are they important?

This is an excerpt from a story on the Politico website:

White House staffers were following "standard operating procedure when they seized Donald Trump's medical records from the president's former physician, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Tuesday.

"As is standard operating procedure for a new president, the White House medical unit took possession of the president's medical records," Sanders said at a White House press briefing."

The seizure took place after Dr. Harold Bornstein revealed to the New York Times that he had prescribed Propecia to Donald Trump.  Two days after the article was published by the NYT was when Keith Schiller (longtime bodyguard to Trump and former Director of Oval Office operations after Trump was inaugurated), the Trump Organization's Chief Legal Officer Alan Garten and "another large man" entered Dr. Bornstein's office without an appointment and confiscated those records.

The doctor had no business telling the press what medications he had prescribed to any patient, let alone Donald Trump.  But put that aside for a moment.  It is not standard procedure to take a patient's records from a doctor.  In fact, under New York state law, Dr. Bornstein is required to maintain those records for at least six years from Trump's last visit.  He is now in violation, since he claims what was taken was his only copy of Trump's records.

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The question that needs to be posed to the three doctors listed above is to ask them if their records of Bush, Clinton and Obama were taken from them to be transported to the White House Medical Unit.  If not, then we have yet another instance of a lie from Sarah Huckabee Sanders.