Hillary’s Health Concerns ‘Serious’

Concerns about Hillary’s health are “serious — and could be disqualifying for the position of president of the U.S.”

That’s the sentiment right now of an overwhelming majority of physicians — nearly 71 percent of 250 physicians polled by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) in a brand-new survey.

Related: What’s Wrong with Hillary?

About 20 percent, meanwhile, said concerns were “likely overblown, but should be addressed by a full release of medical records.” Just under 3 percent responded that the Hillary health news is “a political attack; I have confidence in the letter from her physician and see no cause for concern.”

The results are not surprising to Dr. Gerard Gianoli, a physician in private practice in Covington, Louisiana, and a faculty member at Tulane University School of Medicine. Gianoli spoke with LifeZette on these issues earlier this week.

“My biggest contention on Ms. Clinton isn’t what we don’t know about her, but what we do know about her,” said Gianoli. “We do know she had a closed head injury, a concussion that she described as severe and that her husband said took her six months to recover from. This is, by definition, a traumatic brain injury. The issue is not, ‘Did it cause cognitive dysfunction in her case?’ It causes cognitive dysfunction in 100 percent of the cases of people who have this. The question is, ‘What are the long-term consequences — did she completely recover?’ There are a lot of unanswered questions.”

The other thing we know, Gianoli added, is that she had, by her own admission, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis — a severe life-threatening condition that can cause cognitive dysfunction. “We don’t have any proof to say it isn’t causing problems. The only thing that would be significant would be her medical records.”

[lz_jwplayer video=”7sQP1FZn” ads=”true”]

While more than 81 percent of those polled in the AAPS survey were aware of her history of concussion, only 59 percent were aware of the cerebral sinus thrombosis, and only 52 percent of her history of deep venous thrombosis.

Interestingly, more than 78 percent of the respondents said the health concerns had received “not enough emphasis” in the media, and only 2.7 percent said there had been “too much emphasis.”

Said Gianoli, “John McCain’s skin cancer — the media was all over that, suggesting it might negate his ability to be a successful president. The chance of a skin cancer causing cognitive dysfunction is minuscule, whereas Mrs. Clinton has had two diagnoses that we’ve been told about … one of them causes cognitive dysfunction, at least temporarily, 100 percent of the time. The other one has a high chance of causing cognitive dysfunction. So these are very legitimate concerns of the American people and of physicians in America.”

Related: Media Censors Hillary Health Concerns

And if her health conditions are significant enough to affect voters’ choices? “My suspicion is this is maybe why the mainstream media doesn’t want to pursue this,” said Gianoli. “As we know from the leaked DNC [Democratic National Committee] documents, there are big media types in collusion with the Dems. It really does smell like a cover-up.”

“Both physicians and other voters think health concerns are relevant when choosing a presidential candidate,” said the executive director of AAPS.

Nearly two-thirds of those polled said a physician who had a concern about a candidate’s fitness to serve for health reasons should “make the concerns known to the public.” Only 11 percent said a physician should “keep silent unless he had personally examined the patient,” and 10 percent said the candidate’s health was “off-limits for public discussion.”

A Gravis Marketing poll of 833 randomly selected registered voters showed that nearly half (49 percent) of Americans were not aware of the “well-documented major health issues that Hillary Clinton has.” Nearly three-fourths (74 percent) were unaware of Bill Clinton’s statement that Hillary suffered a “terrible” concussion requiring “six months of very serious work to get over.” The majority (57 percent) thought candidates should release their medical records.

“Both physicians and other voters think that health concerns are relevant when choosing a presidential candidate,” AAPS Executive Director Jane M. Orient, M.D., said in a statement. “However, more than 40 percent of physician respondents were unaware of [Hillary Clinton’s] cerebral sinus thrombosis, and the vast majority of voters were not aware of all of Clinton’s problems or their potential serious long-term implications for cognitive function.”