UPDATE: After many details of Donald Trump‘s medical records leaked after he taped a segment on The Dr. Oz Show, his campaign has released the one-page report from Trump’s doctor. You can read it in its entirety here.
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ORIGINAL STORY: Appearing on the The Dr. Oz Show Wednesday (the episode airs Thursday), presidential candidate Donald Trump handed over a one-page summary of a recent physical to Mehmet Oz.
While the Republican’s campaign team wouldn’t disclose the contents of the physical summary, some of the details have leaked.
Trump’s appearance on Dr. Oz was meant to be a discussion about his general well-being and his family’s medical history, but instead, Trump handed over the report of the physical, done last week by his longtime physician, Dr. Harold Bornstein.
A release from the show said that “Dr. Oz took Mr. Trump though a full review of his systems” including his nervous system, cardiovascular health, prostate health and family medical history.
Audience members present at the taping said the segment is more entertainment than scientific or medical discussion. Oz suggested that Trump lose a few pounds (he is overweight, but only slightly), and try to curb his penchant for fast food.
Oz said that Trump is “very healthy” and wishes his patients had results like his; Trump’s blood pressure, cholesterol (for which he takes medication), heart function and prostate all read as normal.
He reiterated how he “hasn’t been to the hospital” since he was 11, when he needed an appendectomy.
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Both Trump and his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, have been under increased pressure to release detailed medical records, especially after Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia and was captured on video stumbling getting into a waiting van at a 9/11 memorial ceremony Sunday.
Bornstein had previously written a note declaring the 70-year-old Trump, if elected, would be the healthiest president in history. He later said he had written the letter in five minutes as a limousine sent by the candidate idled outside.
Many people question the authority and authenticity of Oz’s medical background. He is, in fact, a cardiothoracic surgeon, but has been criticized widely by medical professionals because of his support for alternative medicines and therapies.
Oz is a professor at the Department of Surgery at Columbia University, a post he’s held since 2001, and he directs the Cardiovascular Institute and Complementary Medicine Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He is particularly passionate about public policy.
He told The New Yorker in 2013: “I want no more barriers between patient and medicine. I would take us all back a thousand years, when our ancestors lived in small villages and there was always a healer in that village.”
The campaigns of both Trump and Clinton, 68, have said that their candidates would be releasing detailed medical records in the coming days.
The appearance with Oz came hours before Trump was to visit Flint, Michigan to condemn the government failure which led to that city’s water crisis. The city’s mayor made clear she did not want him to come.
It’s the Republican presidential nominee’s first visit to the poverty-stricken city since lead was detected in its water supply in April 2014. He is expected to visit a water plant and a church while denouncing the crisis that affected 100,000 people after the city left Detroit’s water supply and started using improperly treated Flint River water.
The visit to Flint, where most residents are African-American, comes as Trump has increased his outreach to minorities. He has argued that Democratic policies have left inner cities impoverished and dangerous and has taken to asking voters of colour “What have you got to lose?” in voting for him.
Clinton remained in her suburban New York home Wednesday as she continues to recover from pneumonia. She is expected to return to the campaign trail on Thursday. Next week, she plans to meet with foreign leaders next week at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, her campaign said Wednesday.
With files from The Associated Press and The Canadian Press