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The Problem With Trump Dictating His Own Medical Assessment

A superlative evaluation of physical health becomes a failed test of character.
Source: Mary Altaffer / AP

This has been a tortured administration for doctors. The respective scandals of physicians Tom Price, Ronny Jackson, and Harold Bornstein are raising questions for the profession about how it polices itself—and about what role doctors should play in the political process.

On Tuesday, in contradiction to his previous statements, Bornstein that he had taken dictation from then-candidate Donald Trump himself in his health . (This was the letter to the American people that bore Borenstein’s name and which said

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