Palin's "Medical Records" Released

The McCain/Palin camp has released Governor Palin's medical records. Well, that's what they are calling a two page letter from Sarah Palin's doctor... yep, that's it. Read it for yourself. Does she think this is releasing your medical records? That's like saying a book report is the same as the book. The letter was written by a friend and doctor of Governor Palin. The 48-year-old doctor, Cathy Baldwin-Johnson was nominated by the Alaska Chapter of AAFP, which had presented her with the Alaska Family Physician of the Year award for 2001." Letters of recommendation came from a variety of people, including the mayor of Wasilla and a commissioner for the state of Alaska."

A few babies later...Dr. Cathy Baldwin-Johnson of Wasilla is a private practice family physician and the 2002 National Family Physician of the Year from the American Academy of Family Physicians. In 1999, Baldwin-Johnson co-founded and is the volunteer medical director of The Children's Place, and since 2005 has served as a consultant and trainer on child abuse issues. Baldwin-Johnson graduated from the University of Washington School of Medicine where she participated in the WWAMI Medical School program. Governor Palin appointed Baldwin-Johnson in May of 2007 to Alaska Health Care Strategies Planning Council.

This story just keeps getting weirder. The fascination with her health records stems from the rumor/cover-up birth of her fifth son. Frankly, Sarah Palin's official story has always been more disturbing than the conspiracy. Last spring there was the big announcement of Sarah Palin's 5th pregnancy. I'm pro-choice, happy she was able to make whatever choice was best for her family. With her oldest child in the military, three more at home, and one on the way, she was getting quite a bit done. I would have wanted a nap and a spa, but that's just me. In the last few weeks of her pregnancy she was flying all over the country. She flew to Washington D.C. then off to a conference of Republican Governors in Dallas. Her water broke in Texas. She decided to fly back to Alaska to have her 5th child that she knew had Downs Syndrome. She passed up some of the finest children's hospitals in Dallas, Seattle and Anchorage. She flew several hours and then drove 50 miles to her home town and had her baby. I admire her ability to hold a child in during all those hours and miles above the Earth while she was in labor. I'm impressed with her staunch Alaskan loyalty to deliver her baby on Native Soil. Her explanation of coming home while in labor was a joke. No, a real one. "You can't have a fish picker from Texas," said Todd Palin. But had I been traveling on the way to take a loved one off life support, or attend a wedding, or job interview, or any of the other major life events that we commute on planes for, and was diverted by a woman who knowingly got on board after her water broke, I may not admire her uterine control so much. Her lack of judgment for fellow passengers seems obvious, but for someone who is so "pro-life" it seems reckless.

The two page report from Palin's doctor is an example of how she keeps a promise to "release her medical records." Just think what she would do to uphold her oath to the Constitution.

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Comments

[AM in NHP]

One question I haven't seen answered. Candidates always release medical records, yet she was refusing to do so. This brings back the question the Democrats backed off on during the campaign regarding motherhood. This is not an accusation--but medical records are released in campaigns to document health and fitness for the public servant they are trying to become.

So what was being hidden?


At what has now been disclosed was way over $150,000 for clothes, jewelry, makeup, as well as a shopping spree for the whole family, maybe she charged the campaign for liposuction. (Can't say that's not fair game, she went after Biden's plugs --which he paid for)

[Sangha]

A letter from your doctor is not the same as your "medical records". She didn't release squat. She obviously has something to hide.

[Berettasskeeter]

Can you provide a link to Obama's medical records?
Semper fi

[Vkness]

What the hell was that? That was the weirdest "medical record" I have ever read. When you sign your kids up for sports you need a more detailed record than this letter. Strange indeed, what is she hiding?

[biding4brilliance]

Not to mention she released them days (if not the day) before the election. Why even bother?

[EDHvoice]

It is hard to say what precise facts are in those records that causes Governor Palin to refuse to release her actual medical records. I recall that Walter Mondale was dropped as a vice*presidential candidate when it was revealed that he had been treated for depression. With the challenges of governing Alaska, a 17 year-old pregnant daughter and an infant with Down Syndrome, it would not surprise me if she had been treated for depression or anxiety.

[MsLiz]

You have confused Walter Mondale, a former vice president, with Tom Eagleton.

[jessie63]

Here's the only question I have: If she's in "excellent health and has no known health problems that would interfere with her ability to carry out the duties and obligations of Vice President of the United States of America" then WHY THE DELAY?

Why release "excellent" results to the media LESS than 12 hours before the polls open? Why not release them a couple weeks (or couple months) prior to the election to "shut everyone up" and take those issues off the table?

[pleasethinkcritically]

Booo! Who cares? She looks healthy enough. I've always been more concerned with her intelligence quotient. Is that in the 2 page memo? Actually, my biggest concern now is that it's raining in VIRGINIA. Please Virginians, grab an umbrella, wait in line, and get out the vote!!!!

[WilliePilgrim]

She is what we used to call "real Officers material".

[TurtleGuy]

Whatever, no longer relevant. Day late and a dollar short. The GOP will keep fabricating whatever information they need to, just to confuse the uninformed into voting for them.

Why so much trouble releasing these records from what is it, 3 of the 4 candidates this election? Never remember it being this problematic. Both sides are guilty of shenanigans.

[eden4barack08]

Who cares?

[Independent voter]

I care. The bea,ch obviously li,ed, And if she is so willing to l.ie about this, then what else will she do in her lust for undeserved power

[Miravanguild]

What I wonder is, it takes several hours to fly from Washington DC to Alaska, and then drive fifty miles.. If this was her fifth child, how is it she was in labor all that time? Shouldn't her labor been of short duration, unless there were complications? Did they give her drugs to keep her from delivering? That couldn't have been good for the baby, especially when there was no real reason medically for a delay in labor.. Or was that all bogus B.S. she wasn't in labor, then flew home and since it was the baby's time to be born they induced labor? Maybe I am wrong here, you doctors and nurses out there help me out..

[amaycatbaker]

The baby was also a month early? Right?

[ProFromOre]

Coincidentally, Palin's daughter Bristol was in the SAME facility for mono after she had been transferred from her original HS because of potential contagiousness to a different HS. The hospitalization in Wasilla was several months after the initial diagnosis.

If the HS transfer situation is confusing, join the crowd. Hospitalization for mono is rare, but not impossible. Certainly for the infectious disease to become serious enough that hospital treatment was necessary, initial Dr's orders for treatment would certainly have to be ignored to create need for a hospital.

While the mono diagnosis could have been ignored &/or the Dr's orders for antibiotics, rest, etc could have been ignored, the logic for ignoring the Dr doesn't pass the smell test when taken into account with the change of HS, even if the REASON for transferring is illogical. HOW would Bristol be less contagious at a new HS than her old one?

For those of you who haven't heard me say it before: ALL of this is readily available via Alaska newspapers. THIS IS NOT and WAS NEVER a blogosphere rumor!

[PDinCA]

People...a little perspective here? Obama's release of "medical records" was also a letter from his doctor, and was shorter than Palin's.

[Shazzbot]

Yes PD - folks, let's drop it, since in less than 24 hours she's history.

[MaryscottOConnor]

Smells like irrelevance, at this point.

Let the Republicans Party deal with it; she's their "standard bearer," now.

[ProFromOre]

No, this is not irrelevant! The only way the worst of the Failure Part will be driven from politics is if the opposition does not let up. We, on the left, have done this before. Just because Obama was elected, it DOES NOT mean the neo-cons and the amoral and non-ethical ideologues of that ilk will just go away.

Wake up maryscott, Obama's election was NOT a war victory, but a BATTLE victory. Look at what Head Idiot Boehner said in the press today about Raul Emanual!

[Dynamohum]

The repukelicans are a frackin joke. This is pathetic. Even if she has never been sick at all her medical records would be many pages just concerning her pregnancies, let alone her complete medical history. More lies of omission and more rethug cover up. NO MORE> NO PALIN Buh Bye Flailin, sailin, failin Palin byo tch.

[anachoret]

I wonder if they could be hiding something that wouldn't be attractive to her base, which might have happened before 97... What could it be? A beauty contestant in the eighties with seemingly no medical problems. What could she be hiding from her supporters, that would make this pro-life paragon seem less than perfect to her core supporters?

Well, it's a mystery to me.