The President of the United States, Joe Biden, fired the controversial White House doctor Sean Conley, Criticized for giving misleading reports about the health of former President Donald Trump, and appointed in his place his personal physician, Kevin O’Connor, local media reported on Monday.
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Biden is the oldest man to be sworn in as president of the United States at the age of 78, and O’Connor, who has served him since 2009, when he took over as vice president, is a retired Army colonel service to the 82nd Airborne Division, the 75th Ranger Regiment and the Special Operations Command of this weapon.
In 2019, when the campaign for the primary elections began, O’Connor was in charge of Biden’s physical examination and in his report he indicated that the then aspirant to the presidential candidacy for the Democratic Party was in “good health and vigorous.”
The President of the United States, Joe Biden.
The White House physician is responsible for the health care of the president, his family, and the staff of the presidential residence. Account for this with the support of a team of doctors and nurses in the Medical Unit located on the ground floor of the building.
The position of presidential doctor is usually a designation that does not attract much public attention though it was the subject of controversy last year when it was reported that Trump had contracted covid-19 and Conley, he admitted, offered encouraging reports because the White House wanted to give an optimistic impression.
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In May last year, when the covid-19 pandemic spread rapidly in the United States, Trump stated at a news conference that he had taken hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic measure, under the guidance of Conley, who later confirm this treatment.
Former United States President Donald Trump.
Oliver Contreras. Efe
In October, the White House reported that Trump and his wife, Melania, had had positive results in the test for coronavirus detection and the president was admitted to Walter Reed National Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
During Trump’s stay in Walter Reed, Conley, who holds the rank of commander in the Navy, he gave the press contradictory reports on both his status as president and the treatment he was being treated. Three days after his internment the president was discharged.
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