Clinton’s Doctor: candidate has pneumonia, “is now re-hydrated and recovering nicely”Prof. Lisa Bardack, Hillary Clinton’s doctor and the head of internal medicine at Mount Sinai Health System, has examined the candidate.
Prof. Lisa Bardack, Hillary Clinton’s doctor and the head of internal medicine at Mount Sinai Health System, has examined the candidate and released a statement on her health in the aftermath of this morning’s fainting episode:
Will this quiet speculation about Clinton’s health, particularly among those who were certain the candidate was hiding a serious illness even before she exhibited symptoms? I doubt it.
But this is, in part, what campaigns are for. Clinton and Donald Trump have been following punishing schedules for well over a year now. If either of them was laboring under a serious illness, we would see a pattern of public fatigue, fainting spells, and canceled events. But we haven’t.
Back in April, I interviewed Clinton in Raleigh, North Carolina. The day was brutally hot. Before our conversation, Clinton gave a lengthy, high-energy economic speech to a crowd of 4,000. Within 10 minutes of finishing the speech, she was in a chair in front of me. After our 40-minute conversation — which, again, required her to put on her public face, keep her energy high, and talk almost nonstop — she immediately walked across the room to give an interview to a local Raleigh television station. After the two interviews, she spent 10 minutes glad-handing with the crew members.
I was exhausted just watching her. It’s very, very hard for me to believe that anyone keeping this kind of schedule, for this long, is secretly ill.
People’s health can change, of course. If Clinton is facing something more serious than a spell of pneumonia, it will become obvious soon enough. The rigors and relentlessness of the campaign reveals illness, as it did today. But Bardack’s note fits the evidence we have a lot better than the wild conspiracy theories we’ve heard.
Clinton campaign says she left 9/11 event feeling overheated, later diagnosed as pneumonia and dehydration.( Staff Writers Republished with permission of the NY Times)
"She felt overheated so departed to go to her daughter's apartment, and is feeling much better," her campaign said
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, center, accompanied by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., center left, Rep. Joseph Crowley, D-N.Y., second from left, and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, center top, attends a ceremony at the Sept. 11 memorial, in New York.(Credit: AP)
Hillary Clinton unexpectedly left Sunday’s 9/11 anniversary ceremony in New York after feeling “overheated” and retreated to her daughter’s nearby apartment. She was later diagnosed with pneumonia and dehydration put on antibiotic and re hydrated. As she exited the apartment shortly before noon, Clinton said, “I’m feeling great.”
Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said in a statement that Clinton attended the morning ceremony for 90 minutes “to pay her respects and greet some of the families of the fallen.
“During the ceremony, she felt overheated so departed to go to her daughter’s apartment, and is feeling much better,” Merrill said.
Clinton walked out of her daughter’s apartment on her own and made a brief comments to the reporters waiting outside, saying “It’s a beautiful day in New York. and 'I feeling fine:” She waved and posed for a photo with a young girl before getting into her motorcade.
Donald Trump supporters have tried to make the case that she’s physically unfit for the White House, citing a concussion she sustained in December 2012 after fainting. Her doctor attributed the episode to a stomach virus and dehydration.
Trump attended the same memorial service at ground zero in lower Manhattan, along with New York’s Democratic senators, Chuck Schumer and Kirstin Gillibrand. The weather was'extremely warm and very humid in New York on Sunday, and there was no breeze at the crowded memorial plaza during the ceremony.
Clinton’s departure from the event was not witnessed by the reporters who travel with her campaign, which did not offer any information about why she left and her whereabouts for more than an hour but it later transpired that she went to her daughters newby apart ment as previously arranged where she was examine by her doctor.
Asked after the event about Clinton’s health incident, Trump said, “I don’t know anything about it.”
Neither Trump nor Clinton spoke at the event, in keeping with the solemn nature of the annual remembrance of the deadliest terror attack on American soil.
Clinton campaign says she left 9/11 event feeling overheated, later diagnosed as pneumonia and dehydration."She felt overheated so departed to go to her daughter's apartment, and is feeling much better," her campaign said
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, center, accompanied by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., center left, Rep. Joseph Crowley, D-N.Y., second from left, and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, center top, attends a ceremony at the Sept. 11 memorial, in New York.(Credit: AP)
Hillary Clinton unexpectedly left Sunday’s 9/11 anniversary ceremony in New York after feeling “overheated” and retreated to her daughter’s nearby apartment. She was later diagnosed with pneumonia and dehydration put on antibiotic and re hydrated. As she exited the apartment shortly before noon, Clinton said, “I’m feeling great.”
Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said in a statement that Clinton attended the morning ceremony for 90 minutes “to pay her respects and greet some of the families of the fallen.
“During the ceremony, she felt overheated so departed to go to her daughter’s apartment, and is feeling much better,” Merrill said.
Clinton walked out of her daughter’s apartment on her own and made a brief comments to the reporters waiting outside, saying “It’s a beautiful day in New York. and 'I feeling fine:” She waved and posed for a photo with a young girl before getting into her motorcade.
Donald Trump supporters have tried to make the case that she’s physically unfit for the White House, citing a concussion she sustained in December 2012 after fainting. Her doctor attributed the episode to a stomach virus and dehydration.
Trump attended the same memorial service at ground zero in lower Manhattan, along with New York’s Democratic senators, Chuck Schumer and Kirstin Gillibrand. The weather was'extremely warm and very humid in New York on Sunday, and there was no breeze at the crowded memorial plaza during the ceremony.
Clinton’s departure from the event was not witnessed by the reporters who travel with her campaign, which did not offer any information about why she left and her whereabouts for more than an hour but it later transpired that she went to her daughters newby apart ment as previously arranged where she was examine by her doctor.
Asked after the event about Clinton’s health incident, Trump said, “I don’t know anything about it.”
Neither Trump nor Clinton spoke at the event, in keeping with the solemn nature of the annual remembrance of the deadliest terror attack on American soil.
