The nonsense over Hillary’s health: Trump’s attacks aren’t just baseless — they’re disgraceful and irresponsible

As a medical doctor, I am troubled by Donald Trump. He adores fast food with few compunctions and gleefully posts the images of his gastric conquests on social media. The junk-food connoisseur appropriately celebrated the Republican presidential nomination with McDonald’s and once praised the fast-food chain’s virtues on CNN: “The Big Macs are great. The Quarter Pounder. It’s great stuff.”
Yet his body and health are apparently impervious to the pernicious effects of processed foods and their excessive carbohydrates and salt. Dr. Harold N. Bornstein, Trump’s personal physician, fittingly noted in Trumpian hyperbole that the Republican presidential candidate’s health was “astonishingly excellent” and he would thus be the “healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.” Dr. Bornstein’s bombastic medical letter, which he wrote anxiously in about five minutes to make the campaign happy, confirmed for supporters that Trump is a paragon of health whose orange skin tone is mysteriously normal.

And now desperate to capitalize on this perceived advantage in the midst of a floundering campaign, Trump, his surrogates and the right-wing media have found a new frontier for their conspiracy theories and insinuations: Hillary Clinton’s health....
http://www.salon.com/2016/08/31/the-nonsense-over-hillarys-health-trumps-attacks-arent-just-baseless-theyre-disgraceful-and-irresponsible/