Posted on 01/17/2018 10:46:26 AM PST by Kaslin
Normally we defer to the diagnosis of the doctor who’s actually examined the patient, do we not?
Asked directly by Gupta at the briefing if Trump does have heart disease, [Dr. Ronny] Jackson replied, “No, he does not have heart disease.”
Gupta’s not buying it. Here he is this morning on CNN via the Free Beacon:
Sanjay Gupta declares Trump has heart disease
Does he have a leg to stand on? Well, when you Google “coronary calcium score,” one of the first results that pops up is this page from the University of Maryland Medical Center. Trump’s score, per Jackson, was 133. Here’s what U of M says about that:
“You have heart disease.” Trump’s on the low end of that range, but even the range below his qualifies as “mild heart disease” per U of M. On the other hand, according to a study from 2001 posted on the same page, the 50th percentile for men of Trump’s age is 310. He’s well below that.
I think Gupta and Jackson are more or less saying the same thing, except Gupta’s viewing the glass half-empty while Jackson’s viewing it as half-full. Because Trump’s score is decent for a 71-year-old man and because the dose of the cholesterol medicine he’s on is “very low,” they can easily reduce his calcium further with medication to lower the risk of a heart attack. He does have “coronary atherosclerosis,” Jackson acknowledged, but “heart disease” apparently seems like too strong a term to him to describe Trump’s risk. The president’s not about to keel over. Whereas Gupta is looking at the calcium numbers, at the fact that Trump is already right on the edge of qualifying as obese by BMI measurements, and at the many reports that POTUS eats fast-food detritus all day long and declaring straightforwardedly that he has heart disease. Not a worrisome case, but the numbers are what they are.
The Gupta/Jackson quibble isn’t any fun, though. All the fun this morning is coming from “girthers,” people who think there’s no way that Trump is tipping the scales at only 239 lbs, as Jackson claimed yesterday. Initially the pushback on social media among Trump-haters was of a basic “c’mon, he’s fatter than that!” variety, but within the last 12 hours a more refined conspiracy theory has emerged that Jackson and/or Trump fibbed about his height, not his weight, to fudge his BMI measurements. His New York driver’s license lists him as 6’2; Jackson has him at 6’3. Why might he and Trump want to add an inch? Because, the conspiracy theorists claim, they knew that at 6’3 and 239 lbs, Trump’s BMI would be 29.9, the absolute upper limit for being classified as overweight but not obese, which requires a BMI of 30. Measure Trump at 6’2 and 239 lbs, though, and his BMI would be … 30.7. The difference between 29.9 and 30.7 is utterly negligible but the media would have had a field day with calling Trump “obese.” And so, allege the conspiracy theorists, POTUS added a phantom inch to protect his vanity.
Twitter’s now going to spend the day circulating stuff like this:
According to Rear Admiral Ronny L. Jackson, Trump is 75 inches tall. That's 6'3".
Obama is listed as 6'1". pic.twitter.com/1SAq7keoBP
— Alamo_on_the_rise (@AlamoOnTheRise) January 17, 2018
As you might imagine, though, the greatest disappointment among hardcore Trump-haters was Jackson’s clean bill of health for POTUS’s mental acuity. America waited breathlessly and wondered: How would Joe and Mika handle the news that their frenemy Donald is not, in fact, demented and therefore there’ll be no “25th Amendment solution” to their Trump problem? Not well, as it turns out. Not well.
Gupta has never examined President Trump.
Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson is the White House Physician
In 2006, while still in Iraq, Jackson was selected as a White House physician. Since arriving at the White House, he has directed the Executive Health Care for the President’s Cabinet and Senior Staff, served as physician supervisor for the Camp David Presidential Retreat, held the position of physician to the White House and led the White House Medical Unit as its director. He has served as White House physician during the past three administrations and was the appointed physician to the president for President Barack Obama. He currently serves as the appointed physician to the president for President Donald J. Trump.
Source (4th paragraph)
Let’s face it, Gupta has a mental disease.
Those insisting he weighs more are forgetting he’s wearing some type of bullet proof “vest” when in public. He appears larger than he actually is!
Well geez, who are you going to believe, the doctor who actually did the examination, or a TV doctor who has not seen the patient????
Sanjay Gupta, MSM Radio Doctor, RF examinations and diagnosis.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck on the Radio, it'a a Quack.
Gupta advocates for public defacation, so yeah I’ll pass on his judgement.
Wasn’t she a girl friend on The Big Bang Theory?
Hillary would have been a much better president. /s She’s a lot younger, stronger and healthier. And an insane godless America-hating crook to boot. Just the kind of politician the democrats prefer.
Well, this is convenient. When they finally manage to induce a heart attack with all the crap their piling on him, they can say “Told ya so”...
Whelp that’s it, better pull the 25th and install Hillary as potus cuz she won the popular vote or something.
Nah, he's just a media whore. Wasn't he "discovered" by Oprah the great? Might as well be Bill Nye, "the pseudo-science guy" making this pronouncement.
Nah, Gupta, I have heart disease.
I had my first heart attack at 39 and my second heart attack at 45.
How many heart attacks has Trump had, you quack?
CNN = Communist new network
So let me get this straight..the doctor said that Trump is in EXCELLENT health yet this dumb ass says that Trump has heart disease..I think this moron has LIBERAL DISEASE..can’t deal with the fact that they LOST..meanwhile, Obama is a smoker..even though he is pretty skinny doesn’t take away the fact that smoking raises your risk of having a heart attack yet I NEVER heard the Commie media make a fuss about THAT
Isn’t Gupta on that commercial, “TV Doctors of America”?
“Doctor pose everyone...”
Isn’t malpractice to render a diagnosis on a person you haven’t examined?
Can a doctor who did NOT treat the patient speak about that patient’s condition or care? I think Gupta could get in real trouble for this.
Sanjay suffers from confusion.
CNN launch investigation into claims Dr. Sanjay Gupta mistakenly told viewers he performed surgery on girl, 8, during Nepal earthquake
The network said it is working to verify the identity of the Nepalese patient operated on by its medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta
This follows a published report that said Gupta told viewers that he had treated someone else
Gupta, a practicing brain surgeon, operated on a girl on April 27 at shortly after he had been sent to Nepal to cover the aftermath of an earthquake
In a video report from that day, Gupta identified the patient as 8-year-old Salina Dahal
However, it has been reported Gupta actually performed surgery on 14-year-old Sandhya Chalise
I think Dr. Oz was discovered by Oprah..Trump was on Dr Oz’s show during the campaign where he released his medical records
Gupta has destroyed what was left what was left of his medical credentials. The president was reviewed by 13 doctors for 4 hours. There was NO HEART DISEASE JACK ASS!! Where do you, having never examined any president— including Trump come off with this erroneous speculation that is absolutely refuted by FACT and medical science and findings. You are a disgrace and a fraud IMO! You are FAKE NEWS!!
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