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Biden Did Not Have Follow-Up MRI After Brain Surgery, Had Other "Tests"
October 24, 2008 9:23 AM
ABC News' Kate Snow, Matthew Jaffe, Susan Wagner and Joanna Schaffhausen Report: When Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden released his medical records Monday, the documents did not state whether he had had follow-up brain scans after his two 1988 brain aneurysms.
However, ABC News can now confirm that Biden has never had a follow-up MRI because the metal clips used on the aneurysms in 1988 are "not compatible" with that test, according to an Obama-Biden aide.
The aide said the Delaware senator did have tests of some kind following the 1988 surgery that showed he was "aneurysm free", but could not provide details of what these tests were or when and where they were performed.
In addition to a form of MRI, another test often used to detect brain aneurysms is a CT scan, sometimes called a CAT scan. A CT scan is a special type of X-ray that allows doctors to see weaknesses in the walls of brain arteries. It is possible that Biden might have had such a procedure, but again the campaign has not confirmed any specifics about any tests done.
Some doctors recommend brain scans to detect new problems after a patient goes through surgery to remove a brain aneurysm. People who have suffered a brain aneurysm do have an increased, albeit small, risk of developing another aneurysm later in life.
Biden's medical records released Monday showed that he appears to be in good health, as Dr. Matthew Parker, an internist in Washington, D.C., confirmed in a conference call with reporters. Parker has never treated or met Biden, but he reviewed a portion of the lawmaker's medical records and consulted with Biden's personal physician, Dr. John F. Eisold, the attending physician at the US Capitol, who does not speak to the media.
The Delaware lawmaker's biggest health issue concerns two brain aneurysms he had surgery for in 1988. Dr. Eisold had written that Biden has "recovered fully without continued effects" from the aneurysm, but the records released Monday did not reveal whether or not Biden has had periodic brain imaging done since his surgeries.
The campaign assured reporters that they would release additional records about follow-up brain scans, but they have yet to do so.
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Article, proof and photo of Obama - belonged to socialist party; http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=78945
Posted by: Lil | Oct 24, 2008 9:44:55 AM
So, Sarah Palin's advisors decide that it is time for her to meet a bunch of serious world leaders. They head to Europe, where, first up, she has an appointment with the Pope. The Pope and some of his Cardinals invite her for a boat ride on the Tiber. As they are sitting in the gondola talking, a wind starts up and blows the Pope's hat into the water. Palin looks around and realizes that no one is going to do anything about it, so she calmly rises, takes off her her high heels, and steps off the side of the boat. Instead of diving into the water, however, she walks across it, to the hat, picks it up and walks back across the water to the boat. She climbs in, hands the Pope his hat and continues discussing whatever it was they had been talking about. The Cardinals are open mouthed in astonishment at what they have just seen. The news media, in nearby boats are busy discussing among themselves how to report it. Headlines the next day at the New York Times, The Washington Post and the networks all blare: New Revelation: Sarah Palin Can't Swim.
Posted by: Evan | Oct 24, 2008 10:02:05 AM
Sarah Palin's MRI showed a void where the brain should be.
Posted by: Julie | Oct 24, 2008 10:36:39 AM
Lil - and what Johnny Sidney McCain belong too.Johnny Sidney McCain sat on the board of a very right-wing
organization, it was the U.S. Council for World Freedom, it was chaired by a guy named John Singlaub, who wound up involved in the Iran contra
scandal. It was an ultra conservative, right-wing group. The Anti-Defamation League, in 1981 when McCain was on the board, said this about this
organization. It was affiliated with the World Anti-Communist League the parent organization which ADL said has increasingly become a gathering
place, a forum, a point of contact for extremists, racists and anti-Semites.
Posted by: stump | Oct 24, 2008 10:37:25 AM
AND YOUR AFRAID OF SARAH PALIN IN THE WHITE HOUSE ?????
Posted by: Ron | Oct 24, 2008 10:42:33 AM
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Posted by: Larry Fink | Oct 24, 2008 10:43:42 AM
You mean Joe has a brain? I thought he was all mouth.
Posted by: Lee | Oct 24, 2008 10:50:16 AM
Twice last weekend, Biden grimly warned at closed-door meetings that a great crisis is coming early in the term of President Obama:
"Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. ... Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said ⦠we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."
A "generated crisis"? By whom? Moscow? Beijing? Tehran?
This is an astonishing statement from the CHAIRMAN of the Foreign Relations Committee who has access to the same intelligence as President Bush. Was Joe warning of a crisis like the Berlin Wall of July 1961, where JFK called for a tripling of the draft and ordered a call-up of reserves, or the missile crisis where U.S. pilots like John McCain were minutes away from bombing nuclear missile sites in Cuba and killing the Russians manning them?
Is Russia about to move on the Crimea? Is Israel about to launch air strikes on Iran's nuclear sites? What is Joe talking about?
If one assumes Joe is a serious man, we have a right to know.
Instead, what we got was Obama's airy dismissal of Joe's words as a "rhetorical flourish" and a media ā rather than demanding that Joe hold a press conference ā acting as Obama surrogates parroting the talking points that Joe was just saying that new presidents always face tests.
Had John McCain made that hair-raising statement, he would have been accused of fear mongering about a new 9/11. The media would have run with the story rather than have smothered it.
Has anyone ever asked Joe about his own and his party's role in cutting off aid to South Vietnam, leading to the greatest strategic defeat in U.S. history and the Cambodian HOLOCAUST? Has anyone ever asked Joe about the role he and his party played in working to block Reagan's deployment of Pershing missiles in Europe, and SDI, which Gorbachev concedes BROKE the Soviets and WON the Cold War?
Is Joe's record of having been wrong on Vietnam, wrong in the Cold War, and wrong on the Surge, less important than whether Sarah Palin tried to get fired a rogue-cop brother-in-law who Tasered her 10-year-old nephew to "teach him a lesson"?
Posted by: Biden's Long Record of Hackery Shows that He Needs His Head Examined | Oct 24, 2008 10:51:28 AM
Obama thought Biden was the best choice for VP. We must listen to what Biden says.
Posted by: geevill | Oct 24, 2008 10:54:25 AM
Yes, I am afraid of McCain/Palin, he loves war and she too.
We leave in the same planet.
McCain is a little soldier who killed innocent people in the Vietname war. The american people forgot the Vietname war, but the world not. McCain is not a heroe he is only a soldier who lost de war, a war far, far way he never defend his country, he attack others country.
Palin is a religious fundamentalist who believes in criacionism and can be prepare to kill for hers believe, well she kills animals from a plain for pleasure. What terrible person she must be.
Posted by: Constance - Belgium | Oct 24, 2008 10:57:15 AM
i don't know how stupid you all are. Do you really believe to McCain or Obama? They just said what ever you the voters want in order to get elected. They all made me sick
Posted by: anthony | Oct 24, 2008 11:06:20 AM
What's the story here? It seems that Biden had whatever tests were recommended by his doctors, and an MRI wasn't it, because the treatment he had received wasn't compatible with an MRI. So what...?
Since this happened 20 years ago, don't you think if there had been an outstanding problem that we'd know about it by now?
Posted by: Brain Hertz | Oct 24, 2008 11:06:55 AM
Constance, I guess you don't know, Obama was for letting babies born alive from botched abortions being left to DIE!!Yes, dear, he was the ONLY senator who opposed a bill protecting babies born alive from botched abortions from being left to die. It doesn't get any colder than that.
Posted by: Anna | Oct 24, 2008 11:08:22 AM
Posted by: FriendlyFred | Oct 24, 2008 11:12:25 AM
Anna,
didn't that one get debunked like, a long time ago?
As in, the provision in the bill to which you refer was a non-issue, since doctors are sort of required to administer care to any living patients anyway? And that the provision was added to an anti-abortion bill in an attempt to strongarm senators into voting for it?
Posted by: Brain Hertz | Oct 24, 2008 11:12:27 AM
If Economics is a big issue then why is it mostly the blue states that are recession? The rocky mountains which is run by conservatives appear to be doing ok with the recession.
Posted by: Arnold | Oct 24, 2008 11:17:21 AM
Anna, check your facts. Just because Rush Limbaugh says it doesn't make it true.
That bill would not have protected those babies any better than existing law already does. Babies born alive are ALWAYS protected; nobody is leaving them to die, least of all Sen. Obama--who would ensure that they are insured, no less.
So many of these radical arguments--on both sides--ring false if you do even minimal fact-checking.
Posted by: Enough | Oct 24, 2008 11:20:08 AM
Is Joe Biden is coky, and sick, just like Dic Cheny? Barack Obama's "Bottom-up econonmy" is socialist , a big well-fare system, with big government-control, bigger spending, more regulations, and less and less freedom for people. Thoss who work will be punished, or taxed, to finance big spending and well-fare. Barack Obama reminds us of Jimmy Carter, he will cause deeper recession, or even another Great Depression.
Posted by: No_Biden | Oct 24, 2008 11:20:42 AM
So what's next? Are we going to hear about a missed colonoscopy? Who hasn't missed follow up appointments.
Posted by: trump | Oct 24, 2008 11:26:35 AM
This is the most non news story I've seen today. 20 years ago and he couldn't take one anyway? Stay focused Obama supporters. The McSames will do anything at this point!!
Posted by: JimM | Oct 24, 2008 11:29:55 AM
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