2. Lennox Hill has a Division of Gastroenterology, not a “Section,” and Dr. Bornstein isn’t listed on the website as a member. Dr. Bornstein is affiliated with Lennox Hill, but he is not part of their Division of Gastroenterology.


There also isn’t a Department of Medicine there is a Division of General Internal Medicine and Dr. Bornstein isn’t a member of that either. Having admitting privileges and being a division member are not the same thing. Many hospitals allow doctors to have admitting privileges and not be department or division members. And what’s with this made up “Section”?It is also very odd for a doctor in a private practice to use their admitting privileges address under their signature if it is not the same as their practice address.

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4. No doctor describes tests as “only positive results” or “astonishingly excellent.”     “Only positive results” is gibberish. Some tests are good if they are positive and some are bad if they are positive. Some results are just not binary. For example, a hemoglobin (blood count) is a number and not positive or negative.What are “astonishingly excellent” laboratory test results? I’m a doctor, and I don’t know. Is it astonishing that a 70-year-old man has normal results? All his results are exactly average which is good — but wait, I thought his tests are all positive?And while we’re at it, doctors just don’t say “laboratory test results” that sounds like something on a soap opera.

6. How did Dr. Bornstein test Donald Trump’s strength and stamina? Did he have him bench press in the office? Do a treadmill test? Doctor’s just don’t typically write vague, quasi-medical things in letters. I’ve also never heard of a stamina test.

An internist might test muscle strength as part of a physical exam, but the results are graded 0-5, and 5 is not secret code for extraordinary. It’s code for normal.

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8. There isn’t any useful health information. Someone with Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s could have a normal blood pressure, normal PSA, take 81 mg aspirin and be on a “low dose” (we don’t know the exact dose or type) statin — so could someone with diabetes or someone who had a heart stent placed last year or who had a stroke four years ago.

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It’s a terrible letter. Did Dr. Bornstein write it? If so he should be embarrassed. It’s medically illiterate. If he doesn’t know his website doesn’t work or if that he’s not in the Division of Gastroenterology, that’s an issue.Did Trump write it?

He’ll never tell. It certainly reads like a letter written by someone with close to no knowledge of Dr. Bornstein’s practice or medicine.All I can say is, typos and weird links and mentions of non-existent sections of gastroenterology and nonsensical medical information aside, the letter provides essentially no medical information.  

Jennifer Gunter@DrJenGunterOB/GYN, writer, sexpert, defender of evidence-based medicine,

 I read an article on CNN written about Dr. Sanjay Gupta and what his thoughts were on this letter.

Sanjay Gupta challenged the credentials of Donald Trump’s personal physician after questioning language the doctor used to promote the presidential candidate’s health and vitality.The CNN medical correspondent appeared last Tuesday morning on “New Day” to explain some of his findings after digging into the background of Dr. Harold Bornstein, who announced last year by letter that Trump would “be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”

“He’s been a doctor with Trump for 36 years, between him and his father,” Gupta told CNN’s Chris Cuomo. “He says he’s a fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology, so a GI doc. Interestingly, we called that particular organization (and) they said he was a member — but he hasn’t been a member there in over 20 years, since ’95 now.”

Trump announced the letter, which he offered in lieu of medical records, on Twitter by saying it had been issued by Dr. Jacob Bornstein — Harold’s father, who died in 2010 at age 93.

This statement by DT proves that he doesn't even know that the FATHER has been dead since 2010!!   And he paid the son to write it....haha!!  So I guess JACOB (the father) came back from the dead to write this letter....lol

Just wanted to add...I don't really care about DT and his health issues....you just have to look at him and that ugly, fat RED face is an indication that his BP is through the roof.....
 

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Sanjay is very reliable. This goofball doesn't look like he should have his privileges anywhere LOL (yes, that's a horrible judgmental thing to say) but I mean really, would you allow him to examine you? I'm not sure he can even move LOL.
I think its funny that nbc actually got in the door with him and their cameras and they didn't do him or the  any favors

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-doctor-wrote-health-letter-just-5-minutes-limo-waited-n638526

this is interesting.  The dr admits he wrote the letter in 5 min and didn't proof read it.