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Jan 23, 2026

What have independent medical reviewers said about the transparency of White House health disclosures in recent administrations?

Independent medical reviewers and ethicists have repeatedly criticized health disclosures as inconsistent, often opaque, and historically unreliable, and many call for independent panels or fuller, st...

Dec 21, 2025

How do presidential medical privacy laws affect disclosure of conditions like incontinence?

Presidential medical privacy is grounded in ordinary patient privacy law — chiefly HIPAA — but those protections sit alongside special exceptions, constitutional mechanisms, and long-standing politica...

Dec 12, 2025

Have any medical professionals been disciplined for diagnosing Donald Trump or other politicians?

There is clear professional guidance discouraging physicians from letting political views affect care and from initiating partisan political discussion with patients, per the AMA Code of Medical Ethic...