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DID BILL CLINTON OVERDOSE ON COCAINE?By Christopher RuddySeptember, 1999.Now that the press has raised the "coke" question in their dogged pursuit of George W. Bush, questions about Bill Clinton's drug past are also fair game.One area of inquiry for the news hounds at, let's say, the Washington Post, might be an incident that supposedly took place in the early 1980's when Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas.Dr. Sam Houston, a respected Little Rock physician and once a doctor for Hillary's cantankerous father, Hugh Rodham, says it is well known in Little Rock medical circles that Clinton was brought to a...

Some of the most important questions about Senator John F. Kerry remain unasked, even in the midst of a hard-fought Presidential race. Senator John Kerry is enduring much critical commentary over the circumstances of his participation in Vietnam Veterans Against the War protests, more than thirty years ago, as well as questions raised over the appropriateness of his winning three Purple Heart medals, while apparently missing only one day of active duty in the process of recovery from his combat wounds. Equally troubling, but virtually unnoted, is the Senator’s failure to release his medical records. Keep in mind, that Senator...

Kerry allowed some reporters to review his military medical files for 30 minutes yesterday. His personal physician was also available by conference call. At the tail-end of the article, Harris writes:The records do suggest Kerry was occasionally demanding with naval doctors. On Jan. 26, 1967, he complained of sickness and wanted a chest X-ray. "This is a very aggressive patient," the records said. LOL! Wouldn't I love to know what led a doc to write such a thing!Complete article

John Kerry has a piece of shrapnel in his left thigh from an injury he suffered in the Vietnam War, his doctor said Friday during a review of 36 pages of the Democratic presidential candidate's military medical records.

Kerry Doctor Issues Summary of Military Medical Records; Navy Did Not Include Kerry Medical Records with Official Naval Records 4/23/2004 3:47:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk, Political Reporter Contact: Michael Meehan of John Kerry for President, 202-712-3000 WASHINGTON, April 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today the Kerry Campaign released a letter from Dr. Gerald J. Doyle, Kerry's doctor for the past 18 years, summarizing 35 pages of Kerry's personal copies of his military medical records. When the U.S. Navy sent Kerry his official Naval records, his military medical records were not included. Kerry reconstituted the military medical records from his...

<p>The military records that Sen. John Kerry posted on his Web site yesterday raise new questions about the actions he took to earn several prestigious war medals and whether he deserved them.</p> <p>The Navy awarded Mr. Kerry three Purple Hearts, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star in just four months of commanding a gunboat along rivers in Vietnam. It's an extraordinary record, say many veterans, and one that raises questions on its face.</p>

WASHINGTON - John Kerry (news - web sites)'s campaign is posting his military records on the Internet as his critics question the combat injuries that earned him three Purple Hearts and an early exit from Vietnam. The first records posted Tuesday night on Kerry's campaign Web site documented the awards that have been a highlight of Kerry's biography as the Democrat seeks to oust President Bush (news - web sites) in November. During nearly five months as the commander of a Navy swiftboat in the Mekong Delta, Kerry was awarded the Bronze Star for heroic achievement, the Silver Star for...

Washington, DC - PipeLineNews.org – 4/21/04- Breaking Story 8:00 AM - PDT - Laura Capps, Kerry campaign media spokesperson, in a just concluded phone interview with PipeLineNews, informed us that the Senator's medical records should be available on the Kerry website, www.johnkerry.com, momentarily. She denied that there had been a flip-flop on the issue of releasing the records, that the impression that the offer made by the Senator on the Tim Russert, Face The Nation program on Sunday - that all Navy records regarding the Senator's Vietnam era wounds would be released had not been withdrawn on Monday. When...

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry claimed on Sunday that he's already released his medical records, including those that would prove he deserved three Purple Hearts in Vietnam - though reporters have been clamoring for weeks for Kerry to make the documents public. Asked if he would "agree to release all your military records," Kerry told NBC's "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert, "I have. I've shown them." In the next breath, however, Kerry pulled back from the claim that he had publicly released his Vietnam records, telling Russert, "They're available to you to come and look at. . ....

Does bin Laden have US Army medical files? Asheville woman blows whistle; MedQuist denies story Could Osama bin Laden and other terrorists have access to the medical records of thousands of retired and active duty American military personnel? That's one possibility according to a story of overseas outsourcing, broken promises, corporate intimidation and massive technological failure told by Susan Purdue, a former employee of the MedQuist medical transcription company. (A full interview will air Sunday afternoon from 1 until 4 p.m.on WWNC-AM 570.) Purdue said MedQuist, had contracted with the Veterans Administration to transcribe voice dictation from doctors at Veterans...

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"/> April 6, 2004 Many Hospitals Resist Computerized Patient CareBy MILT FREUDENHEIM or years, technology has been held out as an important way to curb the scourge of medical errors. President Bush and Senator John Kerry have each called for a bigger commitment to computerization to reduce the 98,000 avoidable deaths a year that an eye-opening federal report in 1999 said might be caused by mistakes of doctors, nurses and other hospital personnel. Yet even now, despite pressure from large employers, unions and health care advocacy groups - and aggressive marketing by vendors -...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Rush Limbaugh's attorney argued Wednesday that investigators trampled the conservative commentator's privacy rights when they made a surprise visit to a doctor's office to seize his medical records. Limbaugh attorney Roy Black is seeking to keep the records sealed from prosecutors who accuse the radio host of illegally buying prescription drugs. He said investigators should have provided some notice they were going to seize records containing private information. Instead, they used search warrants and gave Limbaugh no chance to challenge the seizure. But Assistant State Attorney Jim Martz said giving notice would have limited...

Does bin Laden have US Army medical files? Asheville woman blows whistle; MedQuist denies story Could Osama bin Laden and other terrorists have access to the medical records of thousands of retired and active duty American military personnel? That's one possibility according to a story of overseas outsourcing, broken promises, corporate intimidation and massive technological failure told by Susan Purdue, a former employee of the MedQuist medical transcription company. (A full interview will air Sunday afternoon from 1 until 4 p.m.on WWNC-AM 570.) Purdue said MedQuist, had contracted with the Veterans Administration to transcribe voice dictation from doctors at Veterans...

Rush Limbaugh may be a flash point of inflamed opinion and rhetoric, but it's the dry 20-minute court appearance his attorney will make this week that matters most. Limbaugh's attorney, Roy Black, will argue Wednesday before the 4th District Court of Appeal in West Palm Beach that Limbaugh's medical records were seized illegally and should be returned to him. The public first learned of the Limbaugh case last October when a tabloid newspaper reported that he was addicted to prescription painkillers. Since then, the case has caused a political and judicial maelstrom in the national media.

Trying to head off concern over Senator John Kerry's planned shoulder surgery this week, his campaign on Monday released a letter from his doctor attesting to Mr. Kerry's "excellent health" and arranged for his orthopedist to answer questions about Wednesday's scheduled procedure. At a forum on Monday in Sacramento, Mr. Kerry did not mention his experience with cancer while discussing health care, as he usually does. The Kerry campaign has said it will eventually release his full medical file but has thus far not done so. Instead, it offered a nine-paragraph letter from Dr. Doyle that used the word "normal"...

ST. LOUIS, March 28 -- Sen. John F. Kerry, by most measures an unusually fit 60-year-old, has spent key parts of his presidential campaign battling ailments ranging from prostate cancer to a stubborn cough and cold. Kerry frequently complains to reporters of a stiff right shoulder or allergies that leave his voice raspy and sore. For much of this year, Kerry has curtailed speaking and sipped hot lemon tea to nurse a voice strained by hacking and yakking. In mid-February, he described the ailment to reporters as a "chest thing" and griped about its persistence. On Wednesday, Kerry will undergo...

ST. LOUIS, March 28 -- Sen. John F. Kerry, by most measures an unusually fit 60-year-old, has spent key parts of his presidential campaign battling ailments ranging from prostate cancer to a stubborn cough and cold. On Monday, Kerry's general physician, Gerald Doyle, is slated to release an updated summary of the candidate's health record. And Bertram Zarins, from Massachusetts General, will brief reporters on Kerry's shoulder surgery. But, several aides said, Kerry's bout with prostate cancer was to blame for the candidate's slow and uneven start to the presidential campaign. After surgery in February 2003, Kerry missed several weeks...

Skimmed this article this morning, they said the disease in question may have been an unidentified STD that Kerry contracted after his first marriage while he was dating Hollywood starlets.Democrats still refusing to release Kerry's medical records, even when confronted with the article.

Why won't John Kerry release his Medical records?? It certainly makes a person wonder, just exactly "what" is in those files. Releasing them would certainly put an end to the PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) rumors. Or would it??? Perhaps this IS the "smoking gun", and poor John is holding on for as long as he can before the Medical records are made public. PTSD is a serious medical condition, and my heart goes out to all who suffer from it. My only question is, doesn't the American people have a right to know BEFORE casting a ballot on November...

Saturday, March 20, 2004 To Rush ... Regards, Bill By Kate NashJournal Capitol Bureau     SANTA FE— Gov. Bill Richardson and Rush Limbaugh agree on little when it comes to politics. But when it comes to the privacy of medical records, they appear to be reading from the same page.     In fact, Richardson recently wrote a letter to Limbaugh, expressing solidarity with the conservative talk-radio host, who is being investigated on suspicion of illegally buying prescription painkillers.     Prosecutors in the Limbaugh case want to unseal his medical records, a move Limbaugh and his attorney are fighting in Florida....