medical records

Today, the Washington Post decided it was time to re-examine the health of John McCain

Questions Linger About McCain's Prognosis After Skin Cancer

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/17/AR2008101702825.html

Evidently eight years of good health and the release of 1,173 pages of medical records to reporters is insufficient disclosure to the truther community on the Left, who are sure McCain is liable to have a relapse.

The cancer truthers claim is melanona has a reoccurance rate of 56%. I'm not an oncologist, but I am a lawyer. Which means that one needs to weigh the evidence both parties bring to the table.

What is the relapse rate for cocaine abuse? 

In the book, Obama acknowledges that he used cocaine as a high school student but rejected heroin. "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though," he says. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/02/AR2007010201359_pf.html 

The medical records released by Senator Obama offer no insight into this issue; perhaps as they total a single page from one physician

Far from the hundreds of pages of medical records provided to the McCain press corps for several hours, Barack Obama’s campaign released a note from his doctor that deemed him in “excellent health.”

http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/05/29/obama-camp-releases-doctors-report/

I'm not sure the left is doing their candidate any service by raising the issue of adequacy of medical records. Frankly, I'm surprised the McCain camp hasn;t been badgering Obama over this. Well, here's another thing a lawyer picks up along the way...you notice what isn't being said as well as what is being said.

Anyone remember this little controversy?  

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/11/03/bush.dui/

Strange things can come to light in the last week of a campaign.

Who knows, unless we really turn out a vote in Ohio Jennifer Brunner may have to bone up on her Katherine Harris imitation