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Zippyjuan
05-01-2018, 02:29 PM
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-doc-says-trump-bodyguard-lawyer-raided-his-office-took-n870351


Trump doctor Harold Bornstein says bodyguard, lawyer 'raided' his office, took medical files

Bornstein said he felt "raped" after White House aide Keith Schiller and lawyer Alan Garten showed up unannounced and took Trump's files.

In February 2017, a top White House aide who was Trump's longtime personal bodyguard, along with the top lawyer at the Trump Organization and a third man, showed up at the office of Trump's New York doctor without notice and took all the president's medical records.

The incident, which Dr. Harold Bornstein described as a "raid," took place two days after Bornstein told a newspaper that he had prescribed a hair growth medicine for the president for years.

In an exclusive interview in his Park Avenue office, Bornstein told NBC News that he felt "raped, frightened and sad" when Keith Schiller and another "large man" came to his office to collect the president's records on the morning of Feb. 3, 2017. At the time, Schiller, who had long worked as Trump's bodyguard, was serving as director of Oval Office operations at the White House.

"They must have been here for 25 or 30 minutes. It created a lot of chaos," Bornstein said, who described the incident as frightening.

A framed 8x10 photo of Bornstein and Trump that had been hanging on the wall in the waiting room now lies flat under a stack of papers on the top shelf of Bornstein's bookshelf. Bornstein said the men asked him to take it off the wall.

Bornstein said he was not given a form authorizing the release of the records and signed by the president known as a HIPAA release — which is a violation of patient privacy law. A person familiar with the matter said there was a letter to Bornstein from then-White House doctor Ronny Jackson, but didn't know if there was a release form attached.

"If Ronny Jackson was the treating doctor, and he was asking for his patient's paperwork, a doctor is obligated to give it to him to ensure continuity of care," said NBC News Medical Correspondent Dr. John Torres, "but it has to be given in a secure fashion. Nobody who doesn't have HIPAA clearance can see the patient records."

NBC News legal analyst Danny Cevallos said that patients generally own their medical information, but the original record is the property of the provider. "New York state law requires that a doctor maintain records for at least six years so a doctor who hands over his original records runs the risk of violating New York state law," said Cevallos.

Bornstein said the original and only copy of Trump's charts, including lab reports under Trump's name as well as under the pseudonyms his office used for Trump, were taken.

Another man, Trump Organization Chief Legal Officer Alan Garten, joined Schiller's team at Bornstein's office, and Bornstein's wife Melissa photocopied his business card. Garten declined to comment on this story.

Schiller, who left the White House in September 2017, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Asked about the incident by Hallie Jackson of NBC News on Tuesday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that taking possession of medical records was "standard operating procedure for a new president" and that it was no accurate to characterize what happened as a "raid."

"Those records were being transferred over to the White House Medical Unit, as requested," said Sanders.

Bornstein said that Trump cut ties with him after he told the New York Times that Trump takes Propecia, a drug for enlarged prostates that is often prescribed to stimulate hair growth in men. Bornstein told the Times that he prescribed Trump drugs for rosacea and cholesterol as well.

The story also quotes Bornstein recalling that he had told Rhona Graff, Trump's longtime assistant, "You know, I should be the White House physician."

After the story ran on February 1, 2017, Bornstein said Graff called him and said, "So you wanted to be the White House doctor? Forget it, you're out.' "

Two days after the story ran, the men came to his office.

"I couldn't believe anybody was making a big deal out of a drug to grow his hair that seemed to be so important. And it certainly was not a breach of medical trust to tell somebody they take Propecia to grow their hair. What's the matter with that?"

More at link.

Zippyjuan
05-01-2018, 02:31 PM
Bornstein was replaced as Trump's main physician by Ronny Jackson who also recently resigned from that post.

https://nypost.com/2018/04/29/ronny-jackson-will-not-return-as-trumps-physician/


Ronny Jackson will not return as Trump’s physician


The White House physician, Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, who withdrew his nomination to lead Veterans Affairs, will not return as President Trump’s personal doctor, a report said Sunday.

He will be replaced by Sean Conley, a Navy officer who has filled in for Jackson over the past month, Politico reported.

Jackson withdrew his nomination last week after Sen. Jon Tester, ranking Democrat on the Veterans Affairs Committee, released documents that alleged the physician drove drunk, drank on the job, prescribed pills so freely he was known as the “Candy Man,” and created a hostile work environment.

Jackson has denied the claims, as have the White House and Secret Service.

At a rally Saturday in Washington, Mich., Trump blasted Tester for raising the allegations against Jackson and threatened to reveal some dirt on the Montana senator.

“I know things about Tester that I could say, too,” Trump said. “And if I said them, he’d never be elected again.”

Jackson, the physician for Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, made headlines in January when he deemed Trump to be in “excellent” health after the annual examination.

Speaking of the president’s genetics, Jackson said, “Some people have just great genes. I told the president that if he had a healthier diet over the last 20 years, he might live to be 200 years old.”

Trump named Jackson to replace David Shulkin, the former VA secretary, in March after the department’s inspector general released a report faulting Shulkin for a trip he took to Europe last year with his wife, whose travel expenses were paid with taxpayer funds.

Swordsmyth
05-01-2018, 02:38 PM
The White House says President Donald Trump's former bodyguard did nothing out of the ordinary when he took possession of the president's medical records in what Trump's former doctor says felt like a "raid."

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended the move: "As is standard operating procedure for a new president, the White House Medical Unit took possession of the president's medical records."
She disputed that it had the feel of a raid.

More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-defends-seizure-trumps-medical-records-193429891--politics.html

Zippyjuan
05-01-2018, 02:45 PM
She disputed that it had the feel of a raid.

She was there?


Bornstein said he was not given a form authorizing the release of the records and signed by the president known as a HIPAA release — which is a violation of patient privacy law. A person familiar with the matter said there was a letter to Bornstein from then-White House doctor Ronny Jackson, but didn't know if there was a release form attached.

"If Ronny Jackson was the treating doctor, and he was asking for his patient's paperwork, a doctor is obligated to give it to him to ensure continuity of care," said NBC News Medical Correspondent Dr. John Torres, "but it has to be given in a secure fashion. Nobody who doesn't have HIPAA clearance can see the patient records."

NBC News legal analyst Danny Cevallos said that patients generally own their medical information, but the original record is the property of the provider. "New York state law requires that a doctor maintain records for at least six years so a doctor who hands over his original records runs the risk of violating New York state law," said Cevallos.

Bornstein said the original and only copy of Trump's charts, including lab reports under Trump's name as well as under the pseudonyms his office used for Trump, were taken.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-doc-says-trump-bodyguard-lawyer-raided-his-office-took-n870351

RonZeplin
05-01-2018, 03:16 PM
Trump bombed Assad because Bashir has the good hair genes?

https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Fred-Trump-and-Donald-Trump-together.png

Brian4Liberty
05-01-2018, 04:12 PM
She was there?
...

"If Ronny Jackson was the treating doctor, and he was asking for his patient's paperwork, a doctor is obligated to give it to him to ensure continuity of care," said NBC News Medical Correspondent Dr. John Torres, "but it has to be given in a secure fashion. Nobody who doesn't have HIPAA clearance can see the patient records."
...
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-doc-says-trump-bodyguard-lawyer-raided-his-office-took-n870351

After Trump's ex-Doctor releases private medical information to the media...

Hysterical leftist: "OMG! Those records are sacred! No one can see them! Trump needs to be impeached for this!"

Zippyjuan
05-02-2018, 12:28 PM
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-wrote-his-own-doctors-letter-describing-his-extraordinary-health-908035


REMEMBER TRUMP'S DOCTOR'S LETTER PRAISING HIS 'EXTRAORDINARY' HEALTH? HE WROTE IT HIMSELF, PHYSICIAN CLAIMS

President Donald Trump wrote his own doctor's note, praising his "astonishingly excellent" test results and health, POTUS’s former physician has claimed.

The letter in question, which was shared with the public in December 2015, suggested Trump was in such “extraordinary” physical condition that he would be the healthiest person ever elected president if he won the election.

But speaking in an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Dr. Harold Bornstein confirmed that the sycophantic language used to describe Trump’s health was in fact penned by Trump himself.

“He dictated that whole letter. I didn't write that letter," Bornstein said in the CNN interview. "I just made it up as I went along.”

"(Trump) dictated the letter and I would tell him what he couldn't put in there," he added.

As well as claiming the then-presidential hopeful had “excellent” cardiovascular health, the letter claimed Trump’s lab tests and blood pressure were “astonishingly excellent.”

“His physical strength and stamina are extraordinary," the letter said. "If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency."

As well as dictating the letter, according to Bornstein, the president also tweeted about the statement from his doctor and his physical fitness on the campaign trail.

“As a presidential candidate, I have instructed my long-time doctor to issue, within two weeks, a full medical report-it will show perfection,” he said.

More at link.

r3volution 3.0
05-02-2018, 12:34 PM
President Trump is deeply committed to the maintenance of the public's perception that President Trump has great, terrific, and wonderful hair.

kcchiefs6465
05-02-2018, 02:45 PM
Bornstein said that Trump cut ties with him after he told the New York Times that Trump takes Propecia, a drug for enlarged prostates that is often prescribed to stimulate hair growth in men. Bornstein told the Times that he prescribed Trump drugs for rosacea and cholesterol as well.

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"If Ronny Jackson was the treating doctor, and he was asking for his patient's paperwork, a doctor is obligated to give it to him to ensure continuity of care," said NBC News Medical Correspondent Dr. John Torres, "but it has to be given in a secure fashion. Nobody who doesn't have HIPAA clearance can see the patient records."
This is a special kind of stupid.

H_H
05-02-2018, 02:58 PM
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-doc-says-trump-bodyguard-lawyer-raided-his-office-took-n870351
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More at link. Ha, ha, ha! YES! Promote this story, Juan! Shout it from the hills!

"I couldn't believe anybody was making a big deal out of a drug to grow his hair that seemed to be so important. And it certainly was not a breach of medical trust to tell somebody they take Propecia to grow their hair. What's the matter with that?"

Uh huh. Yeah, Bornstein. Pretty sure doctors aren't supposed to announce to the world what medications their patients are taking in order to publicly humiliate them.

But that's OK Bornstein. You have other higher loyalties. We get it. Blood is thicker than some silly oath made up by a dead white guy.

This whole story is very educational. There's a life lesson in there for us to take away, a very practical one, for those who can see it, who may run across and have dealings with the Bornsteins of this world.

dannno
05-02-2018, 03:52 PM
Wait a minute.. the doctor who blabbed about Trump's medical records is complaining that his medical records were improperly seized from him by Trump's team??

Is THAT what you're posting zippy? And trying to make Trump look like the "bad guy"??

LOL...

Zippyjuan
05-02-2018, 04:00 PM
Wait a minute.. the doctor who blabbed about Trump's medical records is complaining that his medical records were improperly seized from him by Trump's team??

Is THAT what you're posting zippy? And trying to make Trump look like the "bad guy"??

LOL...

Trump told his doctor to release the information.

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Swordsmyth
05-02-2018, 04:09 PM
Trump told his doctor to release the information.

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An instruction to release a full medical report in 2015 doesn't cover an embarrassing disclosure issued without permission in 2018.

Zippyjuan
05-02-2018, 04:12 PM
An instruction to release a full medical report in 2015 doesn't cover an embarrassing disclosure issued without permission in 2018.

Link to the 2018 disclosure? (that was put out by his then doctor Jackson: https://www.vox.com/2018/1/11/16863254/trump-physical-exam-mental-health )

Origanalist
05-02-2018, 04:16 PM
Thankfully I have never felt raped, it could be because it would go very badly for the rapist should I live. Just a guess.

Zippyjuan
05-02-2018, 04:18 PM
Thankfully I have never felt raped, it could be because it would go very badly for the rapist should I live. Just a guess.

Try moving to Sweden. Everybody there seems to get raped.

spudea
05-02-2018, 04:20 PM
Doctor admits he violated HIPAA law, doctor admits to lying about drafting the health report letter during the campaign, and we are supposed to believe him regarding the people coming to his office for the president's records...

Swordsmyth
05-02-2018, 04:23 PM
Link to the 2018 disclosure? (that was put out by his then doctor Jackson: https://www.vox.com/2018/1/11/16863254/trump-physical-exam-mental-health )

My error, it's 2017 according to your link: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...e-took-n870351 (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-doc-says-trump-bodyguard-lawyer-raided-his-office-took-n870351)


After the story ran on February 1, 2017

It still isn't covered by a 2015 instruction.

Zippyjuan
05-02-2018, 04:25 PM
Doctor admits he violated HIPAA law, doctor admits to lying about drafting the health report letter during the campaign, and we are supposed to believe him regarding the people coming to his office for the president's records...

White House confirms the raid took place. http://13wham.com/news/nation-world/white-house-defends-taking-records-from-trumps-former-doc-who-says-potus-dictated-letter Their only claim is that seizing the records was not improper.



WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Tuesday that President Donald Trump's former bodyguard did nothing out of the ordinary when he took possession of the president's medical records last year, despite a claim by Trump's former doctor that the episode felt like a "raid."


Harold Bornstein, Trump's longtime personal doctor, told NBC News that Keith Schiller, the president's longtime bodyguard and former director of Oval Office operations, showed up at his office in February 2017 along with two other men to collect the records, leaving Bornstein feeling "raped, frightened and sad."


White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders disputed the doctor's characterization of the episode.

dannno
05-02-2018, 04:27 PM
White House confirms the raid took place. http://13wham.com/news/nation-world/white-house-defends-taking-records-from-trumps-former-doc-who-says-potus-dictated-letter Their only claim is that seizing the records was not improper.

You are missing the entire point.. The White House confirms the records were seized, but that it was not a scary raid like what was described. You were responding to someone who said that we probably shouldn't believe the doctor who broke the law regarding how the seizure was performed, then you respond that the White House confirmed the doctor was correct when that is literally 180 degrees from the truth.

enhanced_deficit
05-02-2018, 04:31 PM
There is no evidence that 'clean bill of health' was obtained using threats.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eYfy862fg4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eYfy862fg4

H_H
05-03-2018, 09:25 AM
Try moving to Sweden. Everybody there seems to get raped.

:D

You are slave to my meme.