I watched the video of Trump on the balcony.
— JaneDoeMD (@Caerage) October 6, 2020
Here is what I saw:
-Extra-respiratory muscles to breathe.
-Visible chest wall rise.
-Open mouth breathing at times.
-Rapid shallow breaths at roughly 25-30 breaths per minute. More than twice normal.
This is respiratory distress.
Yes this is exactly how I felt an hour after a craniotomy. Then I didn't sleep for 48 hours and demanded to when I could swim laps. Dexamethasone is not to be trifled with. It is obviously a life saving medicine but it has side effects including mania. Trump is incapacitated. pic.twitter.com/JqOJHUpWaX
— Michele Dauber (@mldauber) October 5, 2020
Another doctor and Brown Professor agrees that dexamethasone has a host of well known psychiatric impairing side effects. In a regular person who is not President, that is concerning. In the President it is an unacceptable risk. Trump is incapacitated.https://t.co/dJDP7gl8dO
— Michele Dauber (@mldauber) October 5, 2020
Heres's the distinguished doctor and Chair of Psychiatry at Tufts University supporting what my neurosurgeon at a Top 3 teaching hospital (not Stanford) told me -- this is a drug that can have serious side effects including mania. Trump is incapacitated.https://t.co/ZP6zH71M7Y
— Michele Dauber (@mldauber) October 4, 2020
Under the 25th Amendment the Vice President has a Constitutional obligation (virtually the only one imposed on the office) to place the interests of the country ahead of politics or personal interests, and lead the process to determine whether or not the President is "incapacitated" and unable to carry out the duties of office. Only the Vice President can carry out this duty. Will the candidates severally pledge to accept this obligation and carry it out on behalf of the nation? Do they understand this as a duty they alone can perform, a duty that makes them directly and singularly responsible to the country in times of crisis?A lot of physicians have tweeted about side effects of the powerful corticosteroid dexamethasone, but the best line is from a patient, a Stanford prof who had to take it after surgery:
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) October 6, 2020
"I couldn't be President of my cat when I was on Dexamethasone."https://t.co/fqkNUDgDC4 https://t.co/HBFwKpw0GV
Maybe we'll survive for someone to do the movie, The Death of Trumpin.
ReplyDeleteOur Constitutional system is in shreds, it was always a problem, now we can see just how big a problem it is. You can't rely on the honors system after one side has killed honor as an inhibiting protection against insane dictatorship.