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...just how healthy are they? That question was raised last week at a press conference called by Dr. John Roglieri of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. An ambitious New York internist, who took advantage of the meeting to make available to reporters copies of his latest book on health risks, Roglieri complained that voters are forced to rely on assessments made by each candidate's physician, and that these are not standardized...
...Though Roglieri's complaint is valid up to a point, Americans now have far more intimate medical knowledge of their leaders than have citizens of other countries, or than Americans had in the past. When Grover Cleveland was secretly operated on for cancer of the jaw and mouth on board the yacht Oneida as it cruised on Long Island Sound, the public was told that the President had had some bad teeth extracted. The public did not know about Woodrow Wilson's stroke, nor were voters told about Franklin Delano Roosevelt's failing heart. John F. Kennedy...
...candidates' physicians contend, probably correctly, that they have released all "significant" material. Some observers-including Dr. Roglieri-say they would like to see Presidents and candidates for the presidency submit to checkups by an independent panel of physicians, and the full results made public. It would be hard to choose, or certify, such a panel. Nor can there even be any real guarantee of future good health. After all, which American has not heard of someone who, a few days after his or her annual checkup, suffered a heart attack...
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