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Just thought I would stir things up a bit
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01/09/2016 16:40:09
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
 
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>>He starts by slamming Trump's medical report (which, obviously, was a ridiculous report). But then he goes on to say some things about HRC that I think will make some liberals uncomfortable.

Sheesh.

1) He repeats the fib that Trump's letter says "results" were positive. No it doesn't. Take a look: you don't need to be a physician to see through this bad paraphrase.
2) He criticizes opinion from a gastroenterologist. However, Trump's physician is a MD who worked in his father's general medical practice for decades which is how he came to be Trump's physician. They stuck together as the physician's practice solidified around gastroenterology. This is not so uncommon in the US when families of patients and physicians can stick together over generations. It's a nit.
3) Certainly the letter is unconventional but it's not a professional letter between colleagues, but for public consumption about a colorful fellow. It's a letter for a lay audience. The last sentence is a reach and the grammatical, website and inclusion of his dead father in the letter header, are embarrassing IMHO and unusual. But then his colleagues agree he is unusual but competent.
4) Which is what matters. "Competent" ought to clinch it when he says Trump is in great health.

Did Trump write this himself and rely on a lifelong association to get it signed on the spot? That might explain the deceased father's inclusion in the letter and dysfunctional website if it was cut and pasted from a letter from years ago. There's more: the letter says the physician is a Fellow but the GI College says he's a Member. May not mean much to lay people, but it's not something to plaster on a letter like this. Similarly, admitting privileges aren't the same as being a member of a section- not that it matters for this letter where all of these irrelevancies detract from the MD message conveyed. He could have saved himself a bunch of grief by simply leaving all of it out except "MD" and "36-year association with me and my pa."

Certainly in hindsight, it might have been smarter to have had *somebody* proof the letter for obvious typos and mistakes, or even to have sourced a letter from somebody less eccentric. Maybe this leads to your and Tamar's earlier point that his campaign is a shambles.

But if we're going to look at qualifications/motivations for physician opinion: Obama's physician who is quoted here, is most famous for his decades of advocating a single-payer healthcare model. Today he says that Trump scares the devil out of him and that he will vote for Hillary. Why is that news?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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