2,000 Doctors Call on McCain to Release his Medical Records

[marmar]

from AlterNet's PEEK:



2,000 Doctors Call on McCain to Release His Medical Records

Posted by Staff, Brave New Films at 2:43 PM on September 17, 2008.

The state of McCain's health has become an increasingly important issue in the general election.




Editor's note: The following is a press release from our friends at Brave New Films:

2,000 Doctors Call on McCain to Release his Medical Records

LOS ANGELES -- Over 2,000 MDs and other degreed medical professionals have signed an open letter calling for a "full, public disclosure" of John McCain's medical records. Brave New Films will release the complete list of names to reporters this Thursday. The text of the letter is viewable here.

The state of McCain's health has become an increasingly important issue in the general election. In an interview with George Stephanopoulos last Sunday, Senator Claire McCaskill pointed to McCain's advanced age and history of melanoma as "a reality here that we have to face." Responding to a question about McCain's cancer, Senator Harry Reid told blogger Matt Stoller last month, "Health issues are extremely important. . .There should be total transparency when a person is running for President of the United States." Senator Chuck Schumer told Stoller, "When you're running for president, everything should be public including your full medical records." Video of the remarks by Schumer and Reid is available here.

In May, the McCain campaign allowed a small group of reporters to review over 1,000 pages of McCain's medical records from 2000 to 2008 in just three hours and under strict prohibitions. In an interview with the Columbia Journalism Review, Lawrence Altman, M.D., medical correspondent for The New York Times, described the event as such: ". . .to have a slew of reporters and give each individual reporter three hours to go through what was said to be approximately a thousand pages - that's 333 pages per hour, and I don't think speed readers can read that much that fast. . . doesn't allow anyone, in my mind, to make a thorough analysis and recording, which is what you'd want."


http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/99224/2%2C000_doctors_call_on_mccain_to_release_his_medical_records/

[valerief]

1. K&R

:kick:

[KansDem]

2. Over a 1,000 pages of medical records??!!!

For just eight years? :wow:

That says a lot right there!

[Indenturedebtor]

4. Too be fair 500 of them are devoted to his BushCo brain implant n/t

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

12. Not really.

My mom was in the hospital for two days her complete record from the hospital was 70 pages. Considering how good his health insurance is and what we know of his health and medical history, I'd be surprised if it wasn't a lot more.

David

[polichick]

3. We have a RIGHT to know what's in these records - great news!

[magellan]

5. Damn straight

We have the right to know if the Repubs are setting this country up for a Palin presidency. That's my worst fear, right after McSame winning the election.

[glinda]

6. 1000 pages....sound familiar?

That is how the Republicans hide things. They do it all the time, then set a time limit that makes it impossible to read the whole thing. It is one of their MOs.

[pacalo]

7. Absolutely -- & with "prohibitions" (can't take notes?).

[Jack from Charlotte]

8. Why won't someone in the MSM ask him what he's hiding?

When you give a select few media people only.........3 hours......... to check 1,500 pages of records that's a deliberate act of concealment.

What is McCain hiding by concealing his medical records? It's much more important now with the oldest candidate for pres in US history and especially someone who's had so much cancer.

Of course adding the Moose moron woman as VP on the ticket makes it that much more important.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

9. And I'm one of them!

Except that I'm not a doctor.

Just a friendly reminder that internet petitions are bullshit.

[Disturbed]

10. As important as his Cancer is, a brain scan is called for.

I believe that something is not right with his brain. Perhaps it is an onset of Dementia?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

11. I'm all for scanning his brain.

Unfortuately, I signed the petition as a proctologist, not a neurosurgeon. Perhaps my services will be useful in examining the cavity from whence he extracts all of his policy ideas.