McCain's Medical Condition Could Sink his Boat, If Ever Medical Records Released

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/McCain-s-Medical-Condition-by-Stephen-Fox-080913-282.html


Dear Colleagues and Friends,

John McCain is a 72 year old man with recurrent melanoma, hyperlipidemia, degenerative joint disease, and recurrent difficulty with certain efforts at recall.

These are the limited facts the American people have had access to. Over 1000 pages of medical records were shown to selected journalists for 3 hours with less than 48 hours of notice. The only medically trained journalist was Sanjay Gupta, MD.



This is the extent to which the American people have been informed. While I am certainly sensitive to the confidential nature of medical records, given the anxiety expressed by many of my patients regarding the risk of lost coverage or lost jobs in this current health economic climate, there are certain exceptions for disclosure regarding public safety.

As John McCain knows, a pilot's records are comprehensively available for review by a certifying agency (the FAA) to insure the fitness of the pilot and the safety of passengers and the public at-large. In the election of the President of the United States of America, that certifying body is the American electorate.

A recurrence of metastatic malignant melanoma would essentially destroy John McCain's capacity as the Chief Executive, and the American People have yet to receive a full accounting of the facts regarding his actuarial risk.

If he has had regional metastasis, his risk could be 30% or greater for
distant metastasis to the brain, bone, and lung.

As you all know, melanoma is one of the most insidious, pernicious, and
aggressive malignancies our patients must deal with and that we attempt somewhat pathetically to control with interferon, interleukins, and dismally active and terribly toxic chemotherapeutic regimens.

In addition, we lack the simple data to sensibly evaluate his cardiovascular risk as we would any septuagenerian in our exam rooms.

John McCain MUST be held accountable by the American people and its agents, the free press, to release without restriction the entirety of his
medical records.

Any hesitation to do so would clearly imply that there are significant medical concerns about his ability to fulfill the duties of the President.

Sincerely,

Michael D. Fratkin, MD
Internal Medicine
Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Eureka, California


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[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. McCain doesn't look well. His face looks pale and puffy

[avaistheone1]

2. I thought we are supposed to get a medical accounting of our prospective chief executives.

I don't think this is do much to ask given they are going to be taking on the most powerful office on earth.

[Cleita]

3. Isn't Dr. Sanjay Gupta another Republican tool?

I think his medical records need to be made public to everyone.

[pkz]

5. Gupta was an advisor

to the Clintons'

[Cleita]

7. He was?

I remember him from CNN. He seemed to pop up with the RW pundits of the day then. Of course the Clintons did have advisors from both sides of the aisle.

[pkz]

8. Link

From 1997 to 1998 he served as one of fifteen White House Fellows, primarily as an advisor to Hillary Clinton.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay_Gupta

[Poiuyt]

4. I'm mostly concerned with his mental decline myself

Of course, maybe it's the Ambien.

[RagAss]

6. It's the Mental Health Records, we need to see !

[elocs]

9. The largest body organ is the skin. n/t

[Voice for Peace]

10. He doesn't want us to see his electile dysfunction diagnosis.

[Truthiness Inspector]

11. A winning strategy would be

Obama saying in an ad, "I am a 47 year old man and my opponent is SEVENTY-TWO years old. Clearly, he has health issues that may be unbeknownst to the American public. A physician who has never examined him has said so. I approve this message."

That would seal the deal for sure.