AP
Posted: 2008-05-29 12:40:08
Filed Under: Elections News, Barack Obama
WASHINGTON (May 29) - Barack Obama's doctor says he's "in excellent health," in a one-page letter released by the campaign Thursday.
The Democratic presidential candidate's vice: He's a smoker who has quit, unsuccessfully, on several occasions - but is currently trying again, with Nicorette gum, "with success," wrote Dr. David T. Scheiner, a Chicago internist.
Obama, 46, is a regular jogger "with no excess body fat," Scheiner wrote. His last checkup over a year ago found excellent blood pressure and cholesterol levels, no signs of heart problems on an EKG, and a healthy prostate, the letter concluded.
Scheiner has been Obama's primary care doctor since 1987, and said he was summarizing 21 years of medical records in five paragraphs.
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.
** Obama smokes the ciggies?? Wow, kinda threw me for a loop. Still healthier than McCain by far. Go, go Obama!!