Dr. Harold Bornstein, a Park Avenue doctor who was Trump’s private New York physician since 1980, says that his medical files on Trump were unceremoniously confiscated last year after Bornstein told the press that Trump takes a hair-growth drug.
Bornstein spoke to the New York Times in February of 2017, assuring the publication that Trump was in perfectly good health. However, he added that he hadn’t spoken to Trump since the election and that no one from the White House had requested the president’s medical files.
According to the New York Times, Bornstein willingly divulged the medications that the president was and supposedly is currently taking:
Dr. Bornstein said in the interviews that … [Trump’s] PSA level is low because of Propecia … Dr. Bornstein said he refilled Mr. Trump’s prescriptions for a long-acting tetracycline, a common antibiotic, to control rosacea.
Propecia is a drug used to treat enlarged prostates, but can also be used to stimulate hair growth. Apparently, Trump takes Propecia (which comes with a boatload of side-effects) in order to regenerate the hair growth on his scalp. (Which does explain his hair’s notoriously cotton candy-like consistency.)
Bornstein obviously violated doctor-patient confidentiality, and within days, his office was “raided” by two men, one of which was Trump’s then-bodyguard, Keith Schiller.
We’ve obtained exclusive footage of the raid on Trump’s doctor’s office. pic.twitter.com/wB309b66hx
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) May 1, 2018
All of Bornstein’s files on Trump were taken, and Bornstein was even asked to remove a framed photo of himself standing with Trump, which was hanging in the office. The men did not have a HIPAA release, which would be a form signed by the patient and authorizing the release of such files. It is illegal to confiscate files without a HIPAA release.
“They must have been here for 25 or 30 minutes. It created a lot of chaos,” Bornstein told NBC News in a recent interview.
Trump’s doctor Dr. Harold Bornstein, says that in February 2017, Trump’s personal bodyguard, a top lawyer spent 30 minutes raiding his office. took all of Trump’s medical records. pic.twitter.com/qJrh2o8Rgi
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“I couldn’t believe anybody was making a big deal out of a drug to grow his hair that seemed to be so important. And it certainly was not a breach of medical trust to tell somebody they take Propecia to grow their hair. What’s the matter with that?”
Dr. Harold Bornstein violated doctor-patient confidentiality when he told the media he “prescribed a hair growth medicine to Trump for years.” But Trump thuggishly broke the law when he got his men to raid Bornstein’s office, making the doctor feel “raped, frightened, and sad.”
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) May 1, 2018
Bornstein claims that he’s now speaking out over a year later because of the recent news surrounding Ronny Jackson, the White House doctor who apparently became notorious for handing out pain medications like “candy.”
“This is like a celebration for me,” Bornstein says, since he was apparently denied the position of being the White House doctor after he revealed Trump’s Propecia-popping habits.
Dr. Harold Bornstein had his office raided by Keith Schiller because Bornstein told the press Trump took Propecia for hair growth.
This is a HIPAA violation, and is illegal.
If Trump will break the law just to cover up that he’s bald, he’ll break the law for anything.
— Nick Jack Pappas (@Pappiness) May 1, 2018
As for Bornstein’s 2015 statement, in which he assured the public that Donald Trump would be the healthiest president in history? Well, he still stands by it — sort of.
“I like that sentence to be quite honest with you and all the rest of them are either sick or dead.”