What's he hiding? Grandpa sets Friday medical document dump with RESTRICTIONS

[npincus]

WTF? A small group of reporters can peruse a phone-book sized stack of detailed medical records for 3 hours, and are only allowed to take notes? Then, McCain will provide a synopsis on his website! What the hell? Dumping a massive load of highly technical (medical jargon) reports on a Friday before a holiday weekend for journalists to make sense of is ridiculous. I certainly hope the select outlets permitted to view them send their medical reporters in lieu of those that cover politics.

The NYT articles says McCain sees his oncologist every 3 months for a check-up.

What did Barack do? I would like to compare how he disclosed his records with how McCain is doing it. Will follow up.



http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/us/politics/22health.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin

Senator John McCain is set to release 400 pages of medical records, including documents related to his melanoma surgery in August 2000, to a tightly controlled group of reporters on the Friday before Memorial Day weekend.

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]On Friday, the campaign will allow a small pool of reporters access to the records from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. Pacific time in a conference room at the Copper Wind Resort in Phoenix, near the Mayo Clinic Scottsdale. The reporters will be allowed to take notes but not remove or photocopy the records. Campaign officials said they were imposing the restrictions to prevent the actual records from wide dissemination.

Around the same time, campaign officials said, they will post medical summaries of each year from 2000 to 2008 on the campaign Web site. The summaries will not include doctors’ notes in the actual records.

The news organizations in the pool, selected by the campaign, include ABC News, The Arizona Republic, The Associated Press, Bloomberg, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, NBC News, Reuters, The Washington Post and, possibly, a newsmagazine.

Each organization is allowed two representatives and is expected to file a “pool report” for other reporters detailing the information in the records.

[saltpoint]

1. They'll likely try to keep the psychiatric evaluation under wraps.

[dkf]

2. Goodness, even his medical records are top secret.

Can it be he is even more secretive than Bush? I don't remember all these measures with W's records.

[npincus]

6. What's interesting is that B*sh was treated for lyme disease

and the info was not released to the public for about a year... I remember reading about it some time ago. You could probably find it on The Google.

Lord only knows what a pyschiatric exam would reveal about that THING.. I think it should be mandatory with the physical.

[global1]

3. Hope CNN Send In Dr. Gupta........nt

[Occulus]

4. I hope one of them has the fortitude to just walk away with the records

I'd say this means he's probably hiding something. This alone is cause to suspect such.

[Fleshdancer]

5. Making this much fuss encourages reporters to talk about his medical history...

Either he has something to hide and his campaign is filled with complete idiots, or he has nothing to hide but needs to find a way to create press since no one is paying any attention to him.

So which is it? Too fragile and stupid or just a pompous attention whore?

[peekaloo]

9. can't he be both?

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[monmouth]

7. They're trying to hide something.....n/t

[lonestarnot]

8. You can bet it's some'n!

[hokies4ever]

10. He did have skin cancer a few years ago

MSNBC was speculating that his campaign was leaking the info about the V.P. visits in order to move the health story out of the spotlight.

[npincus]

12. interesting....

it makes prefect sense.

[nancyr]

11. Freedom of the press....

to further their propaganda.

[librechik]

13. practicing to be the second most secretive preznit in history

[Fleshdancer]

14. Is it normal for someone to have 400 pages of medical records over an 8yr period?

Having never worked in a doctor's office, I honestly have no idea. Seems like a lot of paperwork.