I don't like the idea of any doctors going on TV diagnosing people they haven't actually examined. There are some reputable doctors doing it, but it is against ethical standards. I heard a debate on this with some ethicist from NYU and he said that basically it comes down to freedom of speech and ethics. So no penalties will likely be handed out.

But what does bother me is the fact that CNN has had numerous people "diagnose" trump's mental health. They should be banned as well.

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"In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway." T Durden

And he was also wrong IMO at least as to the issue of blood thinners. There are many reasons for someone to be on coumadin and not xarelto, for example. I sorta scratched my head as to why he decided to stick his nose in that issue. Seemed a bit professionally irresponsible without a full examination of a person.

He addressed exactly that in the interview and said: He is speaking as a medical doctor and stated his opinion based upon the released medical report. It was more of an indictment of the care Hillary and her doctors have chosen for her.

The August interview echoes much of what Pinsky stated in January. He took issue with the medications Clinton is being treated with and pointed out she is not taking modern medications. He stated he was gravely concerned about her health care. In both interviews, Pinsky expressed his worry that Hillary Clinton’s health is in jeopardy due to the current level of medical care she’s receiving.

“But the fact is she released her medical records some time ago, and if you listened to my show last week, I just called a friend of mine, Dr. Robert Huizenga, who’s an excellent internist pulmonologist, and we just dispassionately sat and evaluated the medical record that she had released. And based on the information that she has provided and her doctors have provided, we were gravely concerned not just about her health, but her health care.”

Dr. Drew described the basic facts they surmised from the medical report. He stated that her treatment was bizarre.

“What’s wrong with her coagulation system? Has that been evaluated? And oh, by the way, Armour Thyroid associated rarely with hypercoagulability. So the very medicine the doctors are using may be causing this problem, and they’re using an old-fashioned medicine to treat it. What is going on with her health care? It’s bizarre. I got to tell you. Maybe they have reasons, but at a distance, it looks bizarre.”

It was after these comments that Dr. Drew referred to Hillary Clinton suffering brain damage.

“When she hit her head, she had to wear these prism glasses when she came out. That is brain damage, and it’s affecting her balance. Now clearly, it hasn’t affected her cognition, but tell us a little more about that. That’s profound.
“And then number two, when they screened her for heart disease, again, they did an old-fashioned screen. It just seems like she’s getting care from somebody that she met in Arkansas when she was a kid, and you’ve got to wonder. You’ve got to wonder. It’s not so much that her health is a grave concern. It’s that the care she’s getting could make it a concern

Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/...#2QgiIJmQVuxsbx9Z.99

I think he has certainly done better than most. If he is working directly off medical records, that is definitely in fairer territory. That would be no different than a CPA or attorney commenting on what they see in tax returns.

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"In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway." T Durden

But it's okay for Matt Lauer or George Stephanopoulos to comment on any issue, medical or not?

Geez. We're hopeless.

What I don't get is why do we care what shape the president is in? If they die we have a very deep and well thought out line of succession. I would think the righties that hate Clinton would want a really poor health record.

It's really not like anyone is going to change their vote because the president is more or less likely to die in office. They are voting for an ideology not even really the person.

~Matt

Well they're experts on everything Dr. Drew is just a "Love Doctor".










Except: Dr. Drew Pinsky is a practicing physician, Board Certified in Internal Medicine, and Board Certified in Addiction Medicine. Pinsky is also Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Keck USC School of Medicine.

Secretary Clinton’s physician, Lisa Bardack, MD, earned her medical degree in 1990, so she was even not in practice when Mrs. Clinton was a child or when she was living in Arkansas as First Lady of the state.


Finally, Dr. Bardack is a board-certified internist, and Director of Internal Medicine at the Mount Sinai Health System at CareMount Medical. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the NYU School of Medicine. She did her internship and residency at Cornell. Dr. Bardack is rated one of “America’s Top Doctors®” by the prestigious Castle Connolly directory and physician-led research group.



Meanwhile, Pinsky is known for “Loveline,” and “Celebrity Rehab,” while Huizenga’s claim to fame is “The Biggest Loser” and being Charlie Sheen’s physician.

Read the rest of why he should have kept his mouth shut here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...47d5e4b07d22cc374585

He is making statements about care and medicine but has no idea why they chose the route they did.

Forge is right, he has no business diagnosing someone he has never seen, just like a psychiatrist has no business diagnosing Trump with anything other than having tiny tiny hands.

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Yeah who cares if the one who controls the football has brain damage :-)

Hahaha! Is this the part where I am suppose to go- That's a left wing dish rag that makes MSNBC look conservative (Thanks Cerveloguy).

No, it is the part where you actually read and learn.

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Yeah who cares if the one who controls the football has brain damage :-)

Pretty much a non issue once one considers the checks and balances. It's not like there's a button sitting by the side of the presidents bed that she can just wake up in the middle of the night and push and launch a bunch of nukes. if she gets up and starts screaming "We are being invaded by pink fluffy bunnies from Russia NUKE EM'!!!" Pretty sure people aren't going to start enter codes and pressing buttons.

~Matt

You mean kind of like taking people with serious drug addictions and exploiting them on a reality TV show? I don't think Dr. Drew's all that worried about professional responsibility.

Yeah, that too

What!
Are you telling me all those years when I was told presidents like Reagan and the Bush's could just grab the football and start a Nuclear war this was BS.

Do you recall the conversations about McCain's age during his campaign and that we could end up with Palin? It was all over the place as a serious issue. I specifically remember age tables like it was done by an actuary.

I really thought this would eliminate her. Democrats love to talk about how Reagan was too old when he left to the countries detriment, this evolved into the criticism over McCain, which was legitimate. I posted here how I didn't think that hypocrisy could pass. I was wrong, like a lot of the crap I expected better of from the dems.

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"In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway." T Durden

Do you recall the conversations about McCain's age during his campaign and that we could end up with Palin? It was all over the place as a serious issue. I specifically remember age tables like it was done by an actuary.

That's a concern if the running mate is a worse choice then the candidate. I'd have been ok with McCain but Palin concerns me. In this case I might be Ok with Kaine but Clinton concerns me :-)

In either case if you were OK for voting for McCain/Palin or Clinton/Kaine you really should not be concerned about their running mate being president.

~Matt

They are both too old, as was Bernie. But now what? We have had 837 reasons to not nominate these two but there they are.

Back in the 80's those of you as old as me might remember when Bobcat Goldthwait was funny. Talking about Reagan, "my grandpa is 75 too, we don't leave him in charge of the remote."

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I didn't know this guy was still on TV. Can't imagine who watches him. Once, I happened to watch an episode of some show he had where he was trying to treat celebs with drug problems. Only watched one episode. Unwatchable.

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So you are saying that you think Clinton is too old? So you aren't voting for Trump either because he is 2 years older than Clinton.

Apparently you aren't voting for McCain in his senate race because he is now 8 years older than when you felt he was too old to be president and is running for a term that is 2 years longer than the one Clinton is running for? He is also 11 years older than Clinton.

Reading the article I didn't see him diagnose anything. He read her released medical records and questioned the quality of the care she has been receiving. CNN is going back to being the Clinton News Network.

Nothing to see here regarding Dr. Drew.

You all missed the only important piece of news. Nacey Grace's show is being cancelled, resulting in a net benefit to the human race.

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I didn't say that. I said the left and the media said they were too old. She is now older than they were, I had hoped they would stay consistent.

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"In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway." T Durden