Accomplished physician begs White House to ‘just come clean’ on Trump’s health after offering ‘contradictory’ updates https://t.co/6GZ0iFQUdi
— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 7, 2020
How much contradictory information? The following is from an interview with a Yale forensic psychologist:
Not at all, and I am still not ruling out malingering, or feigning illness. When deciphering these things, we look for medical inconsistencies, secondary gain and psychological disposition. There are already too many inconsistencies in the medical picture, and look at the enormous secondary gain. We know that he needed something to reset his campaign, with everything going badly for him and his debate performance being unable to reverse the polls — and he was instantly able to stifle most criticism. We also know that he would manipulate any situation, and that we are vulnerable.
I had doubts about Dr. Sean Conley ever since he announced in February 2019 that the president was in “very good health” after an examination by “11 different board-certified specialists.” Why would you need so many specialists for a simple annual exam, and what about the obvious need for a psychiatrist? There is no health without mental health. Hence, when he came out of Walter Reed with an army of physicians, it appeared to me as overcompensation for a lack elsewhere.
The question of greatest relevance to the public is whether or not the president is fit to serve, which White House-employed doctors who are military subordinates to the commander-in-chief are not eligible to answer. A team of independent, peer-reviewed mental health experts needs to examine him for mental fitness, which is not difficult to do. We, ourselves, were able to do it in a very rigorous and standardized way, within a few days of having the information in the special counsel’s report.
Dr. Conley himself said he was adhering to HIPAA guidelines, and thus made clear he is treating the president as a private patient. But even HIPAA laws are supposed to be broken where the safety of self or others is concerned, and a doctor could be held legally liable for not placing safety first.
We already have the travesty of Dr. Ronny Jackson using a 10-minute cognitive screen, which research studies showed even full-blown Alzheimer patients score 30 out of 30 on, to declare the president mentally “fit,” as he did at a press conference in early 2018. All was show, since he had no independence and no mental health training to be able to do so. The public should demand better than this level of deception.
To believe Trump is malingering is to accept a rather broad conspiracy theory, i.e., that all the treating physicians at Walter Reed are in on the conspiracy. OTOH: they are "military subordinates to the commander-in-chief;" but still. On the other, other hand, his doctors say he's been "symptom free" for 24 hours. Because of the steroid? Or because he didn't have symptoms in the first place?
No, too weird. I don't think even the doctors would either administer drugs Trump doesn't need, or report he was on drugs he isn't being given. But that "fitness to serve" question keeps coming back, and the only person under the Constitution who can face that question is Mike Pence. So even if that shoe does drop, Mike's not going to pay attention to it.
"The more egregious Donald's failures become, the more egregious his cruelty becomes."
— Mary L Trump (@MaryLTrump) October 7, 2020
--Too Much and Never Enough
Any lying to us, as fast and furiously as he can.He’s exercising his prerogative as Bioterrorist-in-Chief. https://t.co/fvlalEvBcu
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) October 7, 2020
NEW from Regeneron: “... given the volume of IgG antibodies delivered in our therapy, and the timing of these tests, it is likely that the second test is detecting REGN-COV2 antibodies.” pic.twitter.com/w5eGOP8SPH
— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) October 7, 2020
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