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Former WH Physician Rings Alarm on Trump’s Health — Trump May Have Neurological Problems

Former White House physician Dr. David Scheiner expressed concern over Donald Trump’s health on Monday, and skepticism surrounding his unannounced visit to Walter Reed Hospital last weekend.

The White House has described the visit as routine, which Scheiner dismissed as “absolute balderdash” during a Monday evening interview with Outfront anchor Erin Burnett.

Scheiner has some expertise in White House medical protocol as the Chicago-based medical doctor served as primary physician to President Barack Obama during his two terms. While Scheiner didn’t believe that Trump’s weekend hospital “check-up” was an “emergency,” he did suggest that it was an urgent matter.

“Maybe he had chest pain,” he Dr. suggested, adding “Maybe he had some neurologic — I think he is someone who has some neurological issues which no one has ever really addressed.”

Later in the interview, he went into some detail explaining his diagnosis, which seems to come entirely from watching President Trump on television.

“He is having trouble word-finding when he said united shush instead of the United States. These are words, he can’t find them,” Schneider noted. “This is happening over and over again. Comedians joke about it. It’s not a joking matter. I think there’s a neurological issue that’s not being addressed. If he had an MRI of his head over there, I would be very pleased. I think he needs it.”

Scheiner isn’t the only presidential doctor that has concerns.

Dr. Jonathan Reiner, who is still former Vice President Dick Cheney’s cardiologist, said that he spoke with someone assigned to talk about the president’s health in the White House and still has questions about Trump’s trip to Walter Reed over the weekend.

“This had been something they had been thinking about for a while, the president had some downtime, so he went over to Walter Reed to get some of this done,” said Dr. Reiner, citing the White House source. “There was no sophisticated testing done. It’s a little bit unusual. Almost everything that is usually done in a presidential physical like this, can be done in the White House at the White House medical unit. So, it doesn’t really make a lot of sense why the president would travel to Walter Reed on a Saturday afternoon for this kind of testing.”

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