Word: cheneys
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...that would put Cheney firmly in the long line of public figures who were less than candid about their medical history, especially when they have something to hide. In 1919 Woodrow Wilson suffered the massive stroke that left him partly paralyzed. But Wilson's doctors and his wife Edith hid the seriousness of his condition so well that even Congress was in the dark. The Senate was reduced to dispatching a "smelling committee" to the White House in a failed attempt to sniff out his real condition. John Kennedy flatly denied that he had Addison's disease, an often fatal...
...Cheney's closemouthed approach to his medical history has only encouraged more questions about it. His latest coronary episode, and the bumptious way the news went public, is likely to stir them up further. After Bush spoke, there was more confusion at a news conference held by the doctors who attended Cheney at the hospital. Alan Wasserman, president of the hospital's medical faculty associates, mentioned that Cheney's second blood test for the cardiac enzymes given off by a damaged heart muscle showed that Cheney's "enzyme levels were slightly elevated." Anyone who is not a cardiologist might suppose...
...hospital says the Bush campaign had nothing to do with preparing Wasserman's first dissembling statement. And though Cheney's wife Lynne and daughter Liz were involved, Cheney's press secretary, Juleanna Glover Weiss, insists they did not at first understand that what he had suffered qualified as a heart attack. Communications director Hughes says she also did not understand until she asked the hospital's p.r. director to explain the meaning of the elevated enzyme levels. Once she realized that this signaled a mild heart attack, she says, she immediately told the hospital that the doctors should go before...
...only after last week's emergency that Cheney's doctors finally made public a crucial measure of his coronary performance, the "ejection fraction," which indicates the heart's pumping power. A healthy heart registers within the 50% to 70% range. Cheney's is a serviceable 40%. His cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, called that a sign of moderate impairment. Cheney's doctors also announced that for 30 days Cheney will take a blood thinner, Plavix, to prevent blood clots from forming around the stent before it can be covered by the growth of new tissue...
...left the hospital Friday, Cheney told reporters he would return this week to "a fairly normal schedule." He was going home with an upbeat prognosis from his doctors, so there's little reason to suppose that poor health would cause him to step aside before Dec. 18, when the Electoral College will formally choose the President and Vice President. If that were to happen, however, and if Bush turns out to be the winner of the presidential race, he could simply name Cheney's replacement, a choice that would have to be approved in a vote by the 165-member...