Obama’s Former Doctor Doubts Biden Healthy Enough for 2024 – Predicts White House Will “Sugarcoat” His Physical

EXCLUSIVE — Ex-President Barack Obama’s Former doctor and longtime patient warned President Joe Biden’s weeks-delayed physical evaluation is likely to pitch the president’s health in the rosiest terms as he barrels toward an expected Reelection announcement.

Dr. David Scheiner, who was Obama’s personal physician for more than two decades before he became president, said that while Biden has performed above expectations since entering office, the president’s age remains a major health concern. Biden is 80 years old and the oldest ever to serve as president.

Scheiner stated that the White House is unlikely to release much new information.

“You’re not going to learn anything. They sugarcoat these things,” Scheiner said that Scheiner was the Washington Examiner, explaining that the president’s expected reelection campaign adds weight to the Transparency is required over the president’s health.

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“By the time he completes [a second term], he’ll be 86 years old; I don’t care if he’s in perfect health now,” said Scheiner. “I don’t care if he’s in perfect health now — which, I can’t believe he’s in perfect health. He’s had too many things in his past history.

He said, “It worries me that he is aging. If I look at him, he’s not a young 80.”

Scheiner explained that Biden’s gait, which the president’s physician described in 2021 as “perceptibly stiffer and less fluid” His health could be an indicator of his overall health if he is older than one year.

“The gait is not an insignificant factor,” He said that it lends itself to being a good friend. “a peek into the whole physical, mental capability of a person.”

Biden’s annual Physical examination The date is Feb. 16, two weeks later than the White House initially announced after it had slipped from 2022 to the new Year. The White House had Attributed the delay to Biden’s travel schedule.

Biden said that part of the exam had been completed last year to reporters during Thanksgiving.

The delay has lent ammunition for Biden’s political opponents questioning the president’s ability to lead the country ahead of an expected reelection bid. Biden Turned 80 In November, and would be 86 at expiration of the second term.

Scheiner suggested that the evaluation include a neurocognitive exam, or even an MRI. However Scheiner called this unlikely given the possibility of uncovering new frailties.

“The one thing they don’t check is a careful examination of the mind,” He said. “I don’t think any candidate wants it. They’re afraid they might find something.”

He said, “Biden had an aneurysm repaired. When you do work on the brain, there’s always a little damage done. He’s had that atrial fibrillation — that can sometimes throw off small strokes. They’re leaving a whole area of concern in my mind.”

Biden’s press secretary said the president’s longtime physician would issue a public memo assessing his health. “We want to be transparent, want to make sure you have the information,” Karine Jean Pierre According to reporters, Tuesday.

Biden’s last physical was completed in November 2021, when the president’s physician wrote that he “remains fit for duty, and fully executes all of his responsibilities without any exemptions or accommodations.”

Still, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, Biden’s physician since he was vice president, noted two areas of “observation”: the president’s “increasing frequency and severity of ‘throat clearing’ and coughing during speaking engagements” A gait and an emcee “perceptibly stiffer and less fluid than it was a year or so ago.”

During Biden’s Case COVID-19 last year, the White House declined to make O’Connor available to reporters, adding to questions about its transparency regarding the president’s health.

Democrats, however, who once Unease expressed about Biden’s age have quieted as the president lays the groundwork for a likely reelection campaign in 2024. Many wondered about Biden’s age. Transparency in physical exam details under former President Donald TrumpThe physician who served as his part of the term is now a Republican member of Congress.

Biden has not yet announced his intention to run for another term, but he is expected to announce it sometime in the spring.

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Biden’s former chief of staff, Ron Klain, downplayed concerns about Biden’s ageHe argued that voters should look at the president’s handling of major crises since he took office.

“Judge his record. Look at what he’s put together. With that age comes a lot of experience and a lot of wisdom,” Klain Submitted The New Yorker In an exit interview