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Bach
10-22-2008, 03:36 PM
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/health/chi-biden-health-21-oct21,0,3034472.story

Newly released medical records from vice presidential candidate Joe Biden do not include the results of any recent brain scans, which some experts consider necessary to assess whether the senator is at risk for a repeat of the brain aneurysms that nearly killed him 20 years ago.

Biden's most recent physical exam in July showed him to be in good health, according to a letter from Dr. John Eisold that the campaign released Monday. The letter from Eisold, who is the attending physician for Congress, described Biden's cardiac capacity as excellent.

But the 49 pages of records the campaign released gave no indication that Biden's doctors sought follow-up tests after the serious aneurysms he suffered in 1988. Medical experts are divided over the need for such precautionary brain scans, but many feel it is the only way to be sure a patient is out of danger.

"If this was my patient, I would re-image every three to five years to make sure no new aneurysm had cropped up," said Dr. Mark Alberts, a professor of neurology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.

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There's probably a good reason for this. You have to find a brain before you can scan it.
Viper
10-22-2008, 03:38 PM
They are cutting cost on wasted procedures. It's the new Obama medical plan.
Wheat
10-22-2008, 03:43 PM
Has Palin released any medical records at all?
ABQCOWBOY
10-22-2008, 03:48 PM
Has Palin released any medical records at all?


She did but all anybody was interested in were the lung shots. See SNL.

;)
MetalHead
10-22-2008, 05:31 PM
If you got no brains,you can't have a brain scan.
ologan
10-22-2008, 07:59 PM
They are cutting cost on wasted procedures. It's the new Obama medical plan.
:laugh2:

On a serious note,much has been said about Sarah Palin being a heartbeat away.....So is he,with the difference being at that point,we are then a brain hemmorhage away from Nancy Pelosi. Think about it.
Sasquatch
10-22-2008, 08:19 PM
If you got no brains,you can't have a brain scan.

I was wondering why this thread was even started given this prevailing view among the right.
Danny White
10-22-2008, 08:32 PM
If you got no brains,you can't have a brain scan.

Damn you... stole my line! :mad:




;)
MetalHead
10-22-2008, 08:34 PM
I was wondering why this thread was even started given this prevailing view among the right.

j-o-b-s is a 3 letter word,right?
Danny White
10-22-2008, 09:11 PM
j-o-b-s is a 3 letter word,right?

And FDR was President during the stock market crash of 29. :laugh2:
JRid21
10-22-2008, 09:44 PM
And FDR was President during the stock market crash of 29. :laugh2:

and a crippled man can stand up? and we had television during the stock market crash of 29? :laugh2:
MetalHead
10-22-2008, 09:45 PM
And FDR was President during the stock market crash of 29. :laugh2:

Furthermore,he appeared on tv!
10 years before tv!...Dr.Emmett Brown,can we borrow your DeLorean?
Bizwah
10-22-2008, 09:57 PM
If you got no brains,you can't have a brain scan.

What baseball player was it that said, "The doctors X-Rayed my head and found nothing."?
burmafrd
10-22-2008, 10:04 PM
Dizzy Dean I think.
Yeagermeister
10-22-2008, 10:05 PM
:laugh2:

On a serious note,much has been said about Sarah Palin being a heartbeat away.....So is he,with the difference being at that point,we are then a brain hemmorhage away from Nancy Pelosi. Think about it.

Actually the President can name his new VP. She wouldn't automatically take over.
Danny White
10-22-2008, 10:29 PM
Actually the President can name his new VP. She wouldn't automatically take over.

He'd probably pick Hillary. :eek:
burmafrd
10-23-2008, 02:05 AM
The sucession part of the 25th Amendment covers sudden death and incapacity. Pelosi would NOT become VP ever. If Obama and Biden BOTH died and there was not time for Congress to approve another VP then she would become President.
ologan
10-23-2008, 05:09 AM
The sucession part of the 25th Amendment covers sudden death and incapacity. Pelosi would NOT become VP ever. If Obama and Biden BOTH died and there was not time for Congress to approve another VP then she would become President.

That's what I meant to begin with. Biden would have to succumb before he could name a VP if he took over for Obama. Chances of that are pretty slim,I guess,but still a scary thought.