Reporter passes out during Barack Obama’s year-end press conference

President Barack Obama briefly paused his year-end news conference after an unidentified woman began to feel ill and medical help arrived.

Obama sought help getting his doctor to come to the White House briefing room, where he was answering questions from reporters. At another point, he started telling people what doors to go through to get to the doctor’s office.

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Journalists and photographers – many of them dressed for the frigid weather – packed the rather small briefing room for Obama’s final news conference of the year, rendering it stuffy and uncomfortable.

Reporters without assigned seats stood in the aisles, which is where the woman was when she began to feel ill.

Obama is accustomed to people passing out at his events around the country – just not in the White House briefing room.