“We applaud this courageous inquiry by Dr. Deepak Chopra and thank Dr. Richard Lippin, esteem member of our Advisory Board, for circulating this. The public in the USA and around the world need to know the answer! ~Hazel Henderson, Editor”
Does the nation need to know more about President Trump’s brain?
Alternative medicine promotor Deepak Chopra is the latest medical professional to suggest we do. In a series of tweets late Monday – the day FBI director James Comey shot down the president’s unfounded but continuing claims about wiretapping at Trump Tower – Chopra asked Trump to “please submit to a psychiatric and neurological evaluation to restore our confidence.”
Chopra, who trained as an endocrinologist (a hormone specialist), not a psychiatrist or neurologist, also suggested that a form of dementia, a brain disease that affects behavior and thinking, should “be ruled in or ruled out,” “for the safety of the world.”
For the record, Trump’s longtime personal physician Harold Bornstein recently told the health news site Stat that while Trump carries some extra pounds, “there’s nothing seriously wrong with him.” In two letters issued during the campaign, Bornstein also said Trump, 70, was in fine physical health. Bornstein also told The New York Times he probably would not screen Trump for dementia if he became White House physician (so far, he has not).