Should the President be examined by independent health and mental health professionals?

[running_coach]

@scarlet2520

I don’t know why people feel the need to stigmatize mental health, when attacking Trump.

There is no evidence he is mentally ill or deranged. His doctor, Harold Bernstein, has called him a very healthy person (which he is in a position to know), as well as the healthiest person ever elected President (which, admittedly, he is not in a position to know).

A real doctor would not say his tests were positive. In a medical sense, positive means you have the disease or condition you were being tested for.

The phrasing of that note was very much the way Trump talks and not knowing the correct terms is very Trumpian in nature.

[jtur88]

@Turek

And that’s your professional opinion?:rolleyes:

Did I say it was my professional opinion? Did anybody else in this thread say whether their opinion was professional or not? rolleyes yourswelf.

@Velocity

I don’t believe this. Cite.

When everyone else in the Opinion forum supports their opinions with cites, I will too.

[Debillw3]

@jtur88

When everyone else in the Opinion forum supports their opinions with cites, I will too.

To be fair, the way it’s worded is bordering on it being presented as objective fact, rather than simple opinion.

I can see where Velocity is coming from with that request.

[madsircool]

Even Pressies are covered by HIPAA laws.

[John_Mace]

@jtur88

Did I say it was my professional opinion? Did anybody else in this thread say whether their opinion was professional or not? rolleyes yourswelf.

When everyone else in the Opinion forum supports their opinions with cites, I will too.

@Debillw3

To be fair, the way it’s worded is bordering on it being presented as objective fact, rather than simple opinion.

I can see where Velocity is coming from with that request.

And yet you claimed to know what would be “professionally recognized”. That does, indeed, give the statement the imprimatur of much more than IMHO.

[FairyChatMom]

So the consensus seems to be that the health of a nation’s leader should not be shared with those under him or her. I have to say, that surprises me - I’d have thought at least some people would want a report of some sort of presidential fitness to serve.

[Evan_Drake]

Hillary had some sort of extended coughing fit, alarming her hosts the Obamas greatly. It was part of a series.

This should play no part in deciding she was not suitable to be elected, and people should instead feel sorry she is suffering.

Suppose a president dies suddenly in Year 2 ? We are all going to die, in that case the vice takes over. Suppose a recent president had an STD ? Should that be revealed to the world ? By the time he was in the final stages — the bad stages — of GPI * he would be long retired. And paralysed.

• Delusions, common as the illness progresses, tend to be poorly systematized and absurd. They can be grandiose, melancholic, or paranoid. These delusions include ideas of great wealth, immortality, thousands of lovers, unfathomable power, apocalypsis, nihilism, self-blame, or bizarre hypochondriacal complaints. Later, the patient suffers from dysarthria, intention tremors, hyperreflexia, myoclonic jerks, confusion, seizures and severe muscular deterioration. Eventually, the paretic dies bedridden, cachectic and completely disoriented, frequently in a state of status epilepticus.
  Wikipedia

[madsircool]

@FairyChatMom

So the consensus seems to be that the health of a nation’s leader should not be shared with those under him or her. I have to say, that surprises me - I’d have thought at least some people would want a report of some sort of presidential fitness to serve.

It would be illegal to share confidential medical details with the public.