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Key points:
1. Trump’s first White House doctor, Jackson, is currently running for the Texas House of Representatives. May become the first White House doctor in politics.
2. The White House medical team has strict requirements for selection. The president is selected by the president himself. Currently, the 34-person medical team is responsible for and responds to various health issues.
3. Being choked by food, grinding feet with shoes, sudden heart attack, and being attacked by weapons are all within the scope of the White House doctors.
4. As American politics becomes increasingly polarized, “presidential physicians” are increasingly involved in the political vortex. They have the most important secrets in the world, and they are also people who try to hide them.
5. Give medicines to patients such as sugar, compliment Trump and blame Obama, Trump doctor Jackson is investigated.
Two doctors in the White House are trapped in Trump’s “health hiding crisis”
“Doctor of the White House”, a position and name rarely heard before, suddenly became a news figure in the United States.
There are at least two things that make this invisible man called “President” suddenly come to the foreground. In early June, Trump’s first White House doctor, Jackson, who is currently running for the Texas House of Representatives, accused the former boss Obama he had served: “He used the highest level of power in our government to monitor Trump…”
Jackson may be the first White House doctor in politics since the White House established this position. But his betrayal of the former boss’ allegiance to Trump clearly angered the public. Reported and attacked by former colleagues in the media. In 2018, Trump nominated Jackson as the Minister of Veterans Affairs, but was unanimously reported by 23 former White House colleagues and failed to do so. Now, his moral issues are clearly the reason for his former colleagues to attack.
The other is Trump’s current doctor, Sean Conley, who prescribed a prescription that allowed President Trump to take the unproven hydroxychloroquine for two weeks to prevent the new crown virus. Immediately, the World Health Organization believes that chloroquine is ineffective for patients with new coronavirus, which may lead to death and heart disease, and has stopped all clinical trials of this drug worldwide.
CNN commentators believe that the White House doctor violated the FDA’s regulations on the use of this drug and agreed that the president takes unproven and effective drugs, which violates professional regulations and exposes the public to the risk of abuse of this drug. Has been out of stock in the United States, affecting the true users of this drug, herpes patients are no longer available.
Dr. Sean Conley graduated from the Philadelphia Osteopathic Medical School in 2006, and then received a medical internship at the Naval Base in Virginia. He was then sent to Afghanistan, where he served as the head of a trauma unit at the NATO base. In addition to all possible health issues for the president, he is also responsible for his annual medical examination.
NBC believes that after Dr. Sean Conley’s secret temporary medical examination of Trump in the hospital in November last year, he publicly announced that a more comprehensive annual medical examination will be conducted on the 73-year-old president in 2020, but now Six months have passed, and it has not yet been carried out. Democratic lawmakers believe that Trump and his doctors delayed the annual medical report because they were afraid of their health and caused trouble in the November election. On May 31, the Washington Post even attacked the White House doctor and his president. After he took chloroquine, voters needed to know the full story about Trump’s health because it is important for the United States.
Does the White House doctor have the right to use unapproved drugs for the president or blame the former for loyalty to the incumbent? This has even become an ethical issue discussed in the media. The White House doctors’ powers, duties, and functions have once again aroused public concern.
Dr. Sean Conley (SeanConley) has become Trump’s second “White House Doctor” since April 2018.
There are currently 34 medical teams responsible for the health of the president
In fact, with the United States’ new crown epidemic out of the world, and the difficult patient President American, and the world’s most special doctor-patient relationship, the White House’s originally very low-key health care department is increasingly appearing in People’s vision. Every official and reporter who enters the White House to attend a meeting now has the opportunity to contact the staff of this department, because they must undergo a temperature test and a new daily virus test, which are the responsibilities of this invisible department.
While wearing casual clothes on weekdays, the White House Health Department became a military unit after 1945, the full name of the White House Medical Team (White House Medical Unit) span>, English abbreviation WHMU, administratively under the jurisdiction of the White House Military Office, the director usually also serves as the president’s personal doctor, known as the “presidential doctor”, the candidate is determined by the president himself, and the appointment is issued by the director of the military office.
The number of team members is not fixed, and generally includes 6 or 7 active military doctors, and sometimes may include a civilian doctor, several medical assistants, registered nurses and medical personnel from the military. The service life of the physician assistant must be 6 years In addition, there are auxiliary staff including administrative staff and medical information technology managers.
Former President Bush and Clinton’s health doctor and retired Rear Admiral Connie Mariano (Connie Mariano) wrote one in 2010 The book “The White House Doctor: A Memoir” wrote that when she was in office, (1993 to 2001), the team consists of 5 military doctors, 5 nurses, and 5 physicians Assistant, 3 medical staff and 3 administrative staff.
That is to say, the total number of members of the White House medical team was 21 or 22 in 2001, and increased to 24 in 2010. The latest White House Assistant Doctor’s operating manual says that the White House medical team consists of 9 doctors, 15 assistant doctors, 9 intensive care nurses, 1 clinical psychologist, and 3 administrative staff.
The difference is related to the continuous expansion of the White House and its affiliates. Mariano introduced in his book that this team needs to provide medical services to the President of the United States, the president’s family, the vice president, the vice president’s family, White House employees, and White House visitors. Now there are thousands of these people combined. Richard Tabb, a retired Air Force Brigadier General and former health doctor for Bush Jr., (Richard Tubb) said: ” People, we are actually taking care of the president. If his speech writer is not 100% healthy, then the president will face some problems if he is to become a 100% president.”
White House doctors have participated in the treatment of Arafat, and shoes and feet are also within the scope of responsibility
In addition, the medical team will also provide services to foreign heads and dignitaries on certain occasions. One situation is that these people happen to be insecure when they are guests in the White House.
Mariano reported that when Clinton participated in the peace talks between Palestine and Israel in Norway, Palestinian leader Arafat suffered a leg injury, and she therefore inspected Arafat. She said: “He is very grateful, he knelt down and kissed my hand.” Another time, she had to impose a Hamrick emergency on a foreign VIPSalvation, because this person was stuck in the trachea by a piece of shrimp while eating at the White House State Banquet.
Of course, the core of the medical team is to ensure the needs of the most important clients. According to the regulations, once the president has the demand, regardless of whether there are other patients on hand or other people being treated, the members of the medical team The issue of the president must be solved first.
Mariano disclosed that for the first time, he accompanied Bush and his party to play golf. As a result, Bush’s shoes needed to be worn with a band-aid on her feet. This is her job. The problem is that at that time, it was not clear what medical supplies and medicines should be put in the medical bag she carried with her. She just packed up some first-aid items according to the traditional practice of the White House doctors in case of any emergency. Treatment, such as gunshot wounds, cardiac arrest, chemical or biological weapon attacks, etc.
As a result, she turned the medical kit upside down. The latest heart disease drugs, pocket masks, laryngoscopes, tongue depressors, epinephrine and brombenzylamine… are all high-tech medical tools or cardiovascular diseases. It wasn’t until the bottom that I found a crumpled Bandy band-aid, which is the same as the one used at home, I don’t know when it was accidentally stuffed in it. She said that she was sweating nervously at the time, because without this gadget, it was a failure to perform her duties.
After busy with this pass, a lieutenant colonel who is about to leave the White House smiled and said to Mariano: “Welcome to join the White House, doctor. Here, any trivial matters are important.”
During the tenure of the only White House female doctor, the major event that may have occurred was the first lady Laura Bush in November 2006 (Laura Bush) skin cancer. She helped the President’s wife remove a skin cancer tumor from the right tibia, but the incident was considered to be the privacy of the President’s family from the beginning and was not disclosed until the media disclosed it.
Obama received the vaccination from a registered nurse in the White House Medical Team in 2009
Basic conditions for entering the White House: Prior experience in dealing with trauma is preferred
Of course, just like every company’s job description on job advertisements, the White House medical team’s responsibilities described in the book must not be a band-aid for the president, but a lot taller.
The White House Assistant Doctor’s Manual describes the role of the job in this way: assisting the White House doctors to provide comprehensive health care services for the president, vice president and their families; responsible for planning, coordinating and guiding related medical emergency action plans, including in the White House and in Leaders’ global travel destinations, on-site and remote emergency plans in two scenarios; providing emergency care services for armed guards for following leaders; providing on-site medical services for White House staff, etc.
An important one is that when the president or vice president visits, the medical team has a lot of complicated work to complete in advance. In general, they must first determine a hospital and other facilities that can provide medical services through the US embassy or consulate in order to ensure that the president’s location is no more than 20 minutes’ drive from the best local trauma medical center. At this point, it must be ensured that there are military helicopters nearby, ready to evacuate the president to the designated hospital.
This is mainly because the White House doctors and assistant doctors are generally general practitioners of the military, but have experience in handling serious trauma on the front line(If not, you must receive at least one year of emergency training in trauma surgery), so it’s really complicated. They have simple surgical equipment in their backpacks, but they only provide emergency medical care. Major surgery has to go to the hospital.
So, when accompanying the visit, the medical team will be divided into several groups, one will be on standby on the special plane, one group will arrive at the destination to visit the hospital in advance and make arrangements in advance, and the other group will fly to the next location to call the front station and wait for the president Or when the vice president arrives, the special crew and the ground team will take over, and the special crew will take a break to ensure that they have sufficient physical strength and then accompany the president to fly.
Tab compares each follow-up to the implementation of a “small military deployment”, which involves the arrangement of medical teams on the trip, coordinating the best medical facilities and the best doctors available in the local area, and the team must do a good job for various situations. Prepare, from medical emergencies such as a heart attack or stroke to chemical, biological weapons orShooting attacks and other situations.
As for the fact that the team members don’t wear military uniforms, it’s also for the convenience of going out to prevent the attackers from counting the doctors within the preset target. Bait car”. According to the U.S. military manual, White House physicians and nurses must travel with the president’s motorcade. Their tactical position should be close enough to the president to respond to emergencies, but far enough apart to minimize the number of attacks. The possibility of being killed together.
Air Force One has an operating room, and the White House is transformed into an emergency care center with an ambulance
In order to cope with the needs of visiting, there are mobile medical kits on “Air Force One” and “Air Force Two”. The former includes a complete operating room with an operating table, two beds, cardiopulmonary resuscitation equipment, various medical monitors, and a complete pharmacy, but no X-ray machine or medical laboratory equipment. The latter configuration is slightly lower, including a set First aid unit, automatic external defibrillator, oxygen tank and limited medicine.
If the first and second leaders return to Washington, the medical team itself has the capacity for 24-hour emergency medical treatment and trauma treatment. A former presidential physician described the White House medical department as an emergency care center with an ambulance. The Eisenhower administrative office building next to the White House also has a medical examination room. When Mariano was in office, he added a medical suite to the vice president’s residence to provide the vice president with the same level of care as the president. There is now a doctor in the group who is permanently staffed by the Vice President’s Medical Room.
Roosevelt Doctor, Major General Howard Snyder, US Army Medical Team
President and the White House doctor: the most difficult doctor-patient relationship in the world
In fact, this bright-sounding profession is not easy to do.
Reagan’s first personal doctor at the White House, Daniel Ruger(Daniel Ruge), resigned at the end of Reagan’s first term , Because “the work of the presidential physician is exaggerated, boring, and without challenges.” Although it is called the shadow of the president by the outside world, and even praised as a person closer to the president’s family, Daniel was unable to attend each state banquet because the venue was not big enough.
Daniel said that he could not attend the state banquet, but he had to prepare for emergencies at all times, usually wearing a tuxedo and standing by in the office alone. Similarly, what Mariano remembers is that she had dreamed of eating the world’s top sushi in Tokyo while visiting Clinton and visiting the Emperor of Japan, but she didn’t eat a grain of rice.
The most difficult thing to do is the relationship with the president. The position of the White House doctor was first private. In 1789, the first US President George Washington fell ill just 6 weeks after taking office. On June 13, he took the most outstanding One of the doctors, Samuel Bard, (Samuel Bard) asked to see a doctor at the Presidential Palace in Manhattan. Since then, when Washington was in the presidential palace, he always relied on Bald to provide medical services, so Bald became the first in the US “Presidential Doctor” series.
In 1928, the US Congress formally approved the establishment of the post of “Presidential Physician”, but still retained a lot of private space, and after it was officially managed by the military in 1945, this post became completely public in nature, “President The “doctor” is essentially the same as the Secret Service chief, so how doctors grasp the relationship with the president is very delicate.
Mariano says the office of the White House medical team is in placeOpposite the president’s private elevator, on call, many times “you become like you belong to a family with the president”. Tabuze recalled: “At the beginning of the day, I was one of the first to see the president. When the day ended, I was often the last person to see him. I saw the pressure and how work affected him. Health, happiness and family.”
The pressure of the “presidential doctor” at work is to ensure that this person can hardly get sick, so he must always remind the president of the health precautions. However, it is always more difficult for people with heavy power to listen to persuasion. This leads to this special relationship between doctors and patients, some of which are very good, and some are pure disasters.
Mariano said that the “presidential physician” must have the courage to stand up against the country’s leaders and tell the other party: “Sir, what do you think about you, such as bed rest, exercise, and not eating those desserts? “She said that she has always tried to persuade Clinton to speak less with her throat. Because of allergies and too much speech, Clinton’s voice is often hoarse, but this is basically in vain.” She still remembered trying to persuade Hillary to immediately check for swelling in her legs, rather than wait and see. This was a lucky decision. Hillary Clinton found a blood clot in her leg after being examined.
Mariano said: “Most of our patients are difficult to be persuaded. They don’t cooperate. They think the usual rules don’t apply to themselves.” When all the methods of persuasion failed, she also had her own killer– The president’s wife. She said: “If he hasn’t listened, you go and say, ‘Okay, I must tell the First Lady’. Then he will immediately say, ‘Okay, I listen, I listen.’”
In Mariano’s view, sometimes the president is like thousands of ordinary people. However, she should thank herself for catching up with the good times, although she had had an unpleasant experience of having to draw blood from Clinton under the decree of Special Prosecutor Starr-this was done for the Lewinsky blue dress Sperm spots are compared with DNA. Trump came to power, and with the increasing polarization of American politics, the “Presidential Doctor” has become more and more involved in the political vortex. Some people choose to hide from the side, while others choose to speculate.
Dr. Connie Mariano worked with President Bill Clinton during his tenure as a White House doctor. Her most difficult moment was to draw Clinton’s blood to match Lewinsky’s blue skirt The spermatozoa on the DNA are compared.
Doctor White House has the most important secrets in the world, and is also the person trying to cover up secrets
In fact, the health of the President and the First Lady has always been a spice for people who like to hunt for wonder. This is not just because of the president’s health, but the country’s future. After retiring, many White House doctors like to write memoirs about the inside story of the White House. In addition to prying into the inside story of the White House, these memoirs are more proud of their profession. Of course, it is also for publishers’ high remuneration.
Of course, the president’s health has been obscured because it is related to politics and even became a state secret. Although not clear, these doctors also have an essential function to help their special patients hide their condition.
Ferrell, an Indiana University professor, spent several years through interviews with many White House doctors to reveal the history of the president’s health problems during the seven-term administration of the White House, including President Grover Cleveland(Grover Cleveland) secret treatment of oral cancer; Warren Harding(Warren G.Harding) Chronic heart disease; Franklin Roosevelt (Franklin Roosevelt) cover up his eventually fatal heart disease; John Kennedy’s Ai Dickson’s disease; Reagan suffered from colon cancer from 1984 to 1985 and prostate surgery in 1987; and George Bush(George Bush)Heart rhythm in 1991 Diagnosis of abnormality caused severe illness during dinner with the Japanese Prime Minister in 1992.
The historian believes that in some cases, their health is poor and they should not run for president at all. In other cases, the doctor’s incompetence or excessive secrecy may prevent proper treatment of the disease and lead to early death.
Ferrel believes that Eisenhower’s heart attack, stroke and Crohn’s disease, including serious gastrointestinal diseases disclosed after his death, etc., will affect Ai’s campaign once disclosed. At that time, the White House doctor Major General Howard McRamsnide deleted and concealed these important documents to protect Eisenhower’s political future.
The book also reveals the medical history of Roosevelt, the sickly president, who had symptoms of cerebral hemorrhage, but because of military secrets during World War II and to ensure that he was re-elected as president in 1944 Of medical issues are not disclosed to the public. However, he believes that all the cover-up and destruction of evidence was performed by the then White House doctor Ross McIntyre.
The test faced by the White House physicians is sometimes not a simple medical problem. They even become part of the government because they need to hide or support the president. The White House doctor’s care and advice may influence the president’s decision. These doctors have the right to influence the life of the president and thus the entire country.
The New York Times said: “This is a different patient.” “Their decisions have affected the lives of millions of people.”
In the absence of tragedy, the White House physician will almost always be in a state of obscurity. When their names are mentioned frequently, they herald the beginning of the crisis.
James Young(James M. Young)Dr. 1955 graduated from Duke Medical School, where he served as President Kennedy and President Johnson During this period, he served as one of the doctors in the department from 1963 to 1966. On the “Intercom” in November 1975, Dr. Young recalled his experience as a White House physician. His experience as a doctor in the White House is particularly noteworthy—the assassination of President Kennedy.
After President Kennedy was shot, Dr. Yang only worked for the President for a few months. In addition to attending the autopsy, he also spent several days caring for Jackie Kennedy. In the absence of tragedy, the work of the White House physician may not be noticed. However, the tragic circumstances of the president’s death have drawn attention to the duties of the White House physicians and the work they do every day.
Two of Trump’s royal doctors: one said he could live 200 years old, and one gave him chloroquine
Trump is 72 years old and loves junk food, so from the day he became president, many people think that he has health problems and psychological abnormalities, calling for the “White House Doctor” to Proof to Congress that his physical and mental conditions are not suitable for the presidency. This makes Trump’s annual medical examination report a sensitive political event.
In May 2018, Trump’s former personal doctor Harold Bernstein disclosed that his office had been searched by Trump bodyguards on February 3, 2017, the original Trump-related medical records , Copies were swept away. It is worth noting that the content of Bernstein’s exclusive interview with the “New York Times” was reported in the newspaper two days before the incident. Bernstein said at the time that Trump had prescribed rosacea and cholesterol in addition to finasteride hair tonic. After seeing the above interview in the newspaper, Trump’s personal secretary immediately called Bernstein and told him: “Do you still want to be a’White House Doctor’? Stop dreaming, you have no drama.”
Bernstein also disclosed that a health certificate issued by Trump in December 2015 was actually written by Trump. The document stated that Trump had just finished his medical examination, “he is in excellent physical condition and energy. I can say unequivocally that if Trump is elected, he will become the healthiest elected president.” According to Bernstein’s latest statement: “He (Trump) dictated the entire letter, which was not written by me. I just told him What can’t be written in.” In this letter, Bernstein said that the so-called “healthiest” is “black humor”.
Abandoning “Big Mouth” Bernstein, Trump had to choose Major General Ronnie Jackson, the “Presidential Physician” to stay with Obama, as the White House medical team. Facts have proved that he has a set of vision in terms of selection, Jackson and White House trade adviser Navarro, Secretary of State Pompeo basically belong to the same way.
Jackson worked in military medicine after receiving a medical doctorate in 1995. He was sent to Iraq in 2005, joined the White House Medical Group in 2006, and was nominated by Obama in 2013 as a “presidential physician.” In January 2018, after Trump became president for a year, Jackson commented on Trump’s first presidential medical report that Trump was in good health, and this good health was attributed to “incredibly good genes” If he adhered to a healthy diet for the past 20 years, he “may be able to live to the age of 200.”
As Trump’s former White House doctor, Jackson’s most famous diagnosis of the president is: If the president does maintenance from the beginning, at least Can live 200 years old!
In March of that year, Trump voted for Lee and nominated Jackson as Minister of Veterans Affairs. However, in the process of confirming Jackson’s nomination by the Senate of the Congress, Montana Democrat Federal Senator Jon Tester opened a document to the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee that recorded the difference between 23 White House medical team colleagues and Jackson. Comment.
The document shows that in addition to giving patients medicine such as sugar, Jackson was nicknamed “Mr. Candy”. He also often gets drunk during work hours, especially when he is drunk on a business trip overseas, which is a serious violation of discipline. On one occasion, the Secret Service, also under the jurisdiction of the White House Military Office, hosted a farewell party for an outgoing agent. Jackson drunk and drove a government bus.
For this reason, a month later, on April 26, Jackson announced that he would abandon the nomination of the Minister of Veterans Affairs. At that time, some former White House aides who had worked with Jackson during the Obama era also defended him, insisting that he was a straightforward person and did not participate in the Trump campaign, although he likes to give the White House without a prescription on long-haul flights. People distribute sleeping pills, but still out of good intentions, I want everyone to take a break. The name of “Mr. Candy” has a lot of jokes, it does not mean that he is not suitable for being a “White House Doctor” . Two years later, these defenders all regretted it.
May 12 this year, Jackson wrote on Twitter: “Obama used our highest level of government power to monitor Trump. Every “deep country” traitor should be punished for his outrageous behavior Bring it to justice.” The so-called “deep state”, the English “Deep State”, is the core concept of the American far-right conspiracy theorists who support Trump.
They accused that under the current administration of the United States, there is a group of dignitaries, secretly controlling the operation of the country, and suppressing white communities, such as the new crown virus, which was specifically created by this group of people to vaccinate people To control the people. In this theory, Obama, Hillary, Bill Gates and others are all demons, and Trump is the United StatesThe great savior of the people makes “America great again”.
So, Jackson’s remarks were unanimously accused by former colleagues, the most common word is “shameless”.
U.S. Department of Defense officials said on the same day that the Department of Defense Inspector General will continue to investigate allegations of Jackson’s alcoholism and prescription drugs. The next day, May 13, Jackson issued a statement saying that recently, former Obama administration officials and mainstream media have once again falsely accused him, but Obama’s surveillance of Trump does have its own affairs, “I never Will apologize for defending US national security interests and constitutional freedom, even if that means angering liberals and mainstream media.” He also said in a statement that he “is proud to call President Trump a close friend.”
“During his tenure at the White House, Jackson was my colleague, my friend, and my doctor. I thank him in the book for his careful care.” Former White House Office Director Alyssa Mastromonaco (Alyssa Mastromonaco) then tweeted, “His comments yesterday and today made me feel confused, angry and heartbroken. I totally don’t Know this Ronnie.”
It doesn’t matter if the old colleagues don’t know. Mr. Jackson, who is running for the Texas House of Representatives, will naturally know more people if he is elected in November this year. There is no precedent to change from a “presidential physician” to a senator. As one of the two people who have had the closest contact with the two presidents, such a backlash is dazzling. In the future, which president would dare to let the “presidential doctor” see a doctor again?
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