Lawsuits: Trump’s Doctor ‘Overmedicated’ Patients Who Died in His Care

[DonViejo]

Settled lawsuits alleged Donald Trump’s doctor Harold Bornstein overmedicated his patients—one with Valium and morphine ‘well above therapeutic levels.’

BRANDY ZADROZNY

08.29.16 9:14 PM ET

Penning Donald Trump’s enthusiastic clean bill of health in five minutes may have been one of Dr. Harold Bornstein’s least consequential mistakes. In 2002, he paid $86,250 to the husband of a former patient to settle a lawsuit alleging that Bornstein overmedicated his wife with powerful, unneeded prescriptions, which contributed to her addiction—and ultimately her death.

The 2002 lawsuit is one of three malpractice claims brought against Trump’s long-time gastroenterologist since 1992, two of which allege the doctor improperly administered powerful drugs which led to the death of patients. Both of those cases were settled before jury trials, with no finding of liability against Dr. Bornstein.

Health has become a central focus of the 2016 presidential campaign, with Donald Trump and his surrogates pushing conspiracy theories that Clinton suffers from several office-disqualifying maladies including strokes. On Sunday, Donald Trump challenged Hillary Clinton to release “detailed medical records” and said he had “no problem in doing so,” hours after the Clinton campaign published a takedown of Dr. Bornstein’s statement that questioned his professionalism and credentials.

In one of the complaints, reviewed by The Daily Beast, Kenneth Levin alleged Bornstein, “was negligent, careless, and unskilled in failing to properly diagnose the plaintiff” and in treating his wife, Janet Levin. The complaint also alleges Bornstein was negligent “in failing to make a referral to a mental health professional; in wrongfully prescribing tuinal, morphine, and valium, particularly in light of the history of drinking; in improperly and negligently seeing the patient without providing treatment; and in overmedicating the decedent.”

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[sinkingfeeling]

1. Is he supplying Trump with his uppers and downers?

[MoonRiver]

2. That WOULD explain a lot!

[mountain grammy]

5. You bet!

[Major Nikon]

15. I can't imagine anyone going to this guy unless they just wanted to abuse drugs

Nothing about him says legitimate.

[anneboleyn]

17. MTE! I have always thought that Trump is on happy happy meds and this doc seems the type

that would prescribe anything "The Donald" requested. To me he seemed quite clearly scared of Trump (I felt that his mentioning of the limo was basically an admittance of the fact that Trump was intimidating him). The fact that the doctor either signed a letter Trump had written for him while a limo waited outside or -- if we buy his story -- that he himself wrote the letter in five minutes while a limo waited outside shows a total lack of professionalism, even a dangerous lack of professionalism. Any responsible doctor writing a letter explaining the current status of a presidential candidate's health should take the time to review, properly, the patient's file, and make sure that all tests and exams are up to date in order to present an accurate picture. No matter how well this quack claims to know The Donald, there is no way he reviewed his patient file and wrote a letter that quickly.

It is all just my humble opinion, of course, but I have always suspected that Trump abuses something (I know there are posters who think he is doing coke as he has a lot of chronic coke abuser symptoms itho). This guy is exactly the kind of quack doctor who gives serious, genuine, ethical doctors who work with chronic pain patients or people with ADD or other groups of patients that need special care a bad name. Seriously this guy needs to be investigated as he has broken multiple protocols -- discussing Clinton's medical history which is privileged information, delivering that absurd letter with its ridiculous claims about Trump being the healthiest presidential candidate ever, saying he wrote the letter under stress, etc etc. There are A LOT of red flags there. He also has a troubled history with overprescribing and not monitoring patients properly.

He seems to be the sort of "happy doctor" that rich people like Trump use as he will give them whatever they want prescription-wise, and he will sign off on whatever or deliver "letters" like the absurdity he wrote for Trump. He gets paid by the very rich to be a sort of Michael Jackson-like "personal doctor." (Imho of course). Scary.

[Hekate]

20. Who, Doctor Feelgood? What are the odds?

[UCmeNdc]

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[Lsantos04]

16. +1

Trump's "doctor" is looking like a true fraud, just like everything else about Donald's sorry campaign.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. ....... no I'm not gonna say it... must.... resist..... urge. nt

[Historic NY]

7. Ok, but the Trumps haven't filed a lawsuit yet.

[Granny M]

6. I looked at the guy

and thought "prescription mill."

[anneboleyn]

18. Yes but only for rich people. He is a private "happy doctor" for the rich. That's why he has evaded

trouble so far. If he were an ordinary doc I have a feeling he would have landed in very serious trouble before now. But his patients like Trump (imho) protect him. I have a feeling that it's not unlike Michael Jackson's doctor -- that guy was a quack and should never have been anywhere near Jackson.

[Sunlei]

8. all Doctors get sued but this man that one case, he did give downers to his 'woman friend'

39 years of "trump special young model parties" makes for a very naughty Doctor.

[AllyCat]

9. Oh my...

One has to wonder.

[JaneyVee]

10. Fingers crossed.

[kimbutgar]

11. Watching him on Rachel last night he reminded me of my Mother who had Dementia

I saw the characteristics of it and when he said Eisenhower had polio I knew then.

I don't think any reputable Doctor would want to certify Cheetos health for fear of not being paid or sued so he gets this crackpot.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Those closely involved

with Dementia patients, who have lived through it, recognize the
symptoms.

The fuzzy logic, leaps of thought, connections that are made but not
apparent to most people, the mispeaking. It's like going through the
motions some days, two sheets to the wind, with a side order of
paranoia and laughing gas.

[Hekate]

21. Add the defensive wife hovering at all times trying to make sure no one else sees the obvious.

Got him all dressed up in his doctor suit in his office with its antique electronics (detailed elsewhere)... I do wonder how many other "patients" he sees besides DTs?

[nolabear]

12. I'm not sure he's not overmedicated himself. And his wife seemed terrified he'd say something worse.

That woman was tight as a wire. She jumped in so much I kept thinking "She is really, really nervous about him revealing something."

Conjecture, of course, but it was strange.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. Yes ....... yes, indeed

"tight as a wire" ... looking left and right, fearful, anticipating, slight
anxiety at its core. One can read people's behaviors and demeanor.

Good job!

[Dem2]

19. Oh, it was freaking bizarre

There's so much more to this story/this "doctor" that we don't know, I'm 100% sure of it.

[Maru Kitteh]

22. Trump's "Dr. Feelgood"

Who could have seen that coming?