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DonViejo

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Thu Sep 15, 2016, 05:55 PM Sep 2016

Hillary Clinton Is ‘Fit to Serve,’ Claims Doctor Who Doesn’t Even Have Her Own TV Show

By Margaret Hartmann

In yet another example of how poorly the Clinton campaign is handling the candidate’s illness, on Wednesday it released her physician’s update on her pneumonia in the form of a detailed two-page letter, rather than having the doctor appear before a TV audience.

Dr. Lisa Bardack, the chair of internal medicine at CareMount Medical in Mount Kisco, New York, said Clinton went to see her on Friday, September 2, saying she’d been suffering from a low-grade fever, congestion, and fatigue for one day. She was put on a short course of antibiotics, and advised to rest and continue taking her medication for seasonal allergies.

Over the next few days her congestion worsened and she developed a cough. On Friday, September 9, Clinton visited Bardack’s office again, and had a chest CT scan. David Scheiner, who was Barack Obama’s longtime physician before Obama was elected president, praised this unusual move, telling the Washington Post, “Because she has had blood clots, I think in the back of the doctor’s mind was, could she possibly have pulmonary embolism? That was a very smart move on the doctor’s part.”

Clinton was diagnosed with mild, non-contagious bacteria pneumonia, and told to rest. As we all know, she didn’t take that advice, and became dizzy and dehydrated at a 9/11 memorial event on Sunday. Another doctor who has not treated Clinton told the Post that the antibiotic she’s been taking, Levaquin, can cause dizziness and lightheadedness, which may have contributed to the incident.

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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/09/clinton-fit-to-serve-says-doctor-who-doesnt-have-tv-show.html

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