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Since the early days of George Washington's presidency, physicians have played a significant role in the health and well-being of American presidents. This text delves into the history of American medicine as it intersects with the specialized treatment and care provided to presidents. It also focuses on the changes that have occurred over time to the doctor-patient relationship. This new edition updates the original 2007 publication through the presidency of Joe Biden.
The book covers presidential physicians' education, background, accomplishments, successes and failures of their professional care, as well as social relationships with their president-patients. Also highlighted are the new developments in the White House Medical Unit (WHMU), the 25th Amendment of the United States Constitution, and post White House careers of featured physicians. The book is enhanced by interviews with every presidential physician from Ronald Reagan's last to Joe Biden's, illuminating the contrasts and similarities between American medical and political history. By reviewing the progression of presidential medical care, this book shows the interplay between medicine, politics, and the well-being of our nation's leaders.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Foreword by Connie Mariano, M.D.
Preface
Introduction
1.¿Samuel Bard: The First Presidential Physician
2.¿The Pillars of the Profession: Presidential Physicians, 1812-1865
3.¿The Military Steps In, Part I: The Early Days, 1823-1865
4.¿The Military Steps In, Part II: Con¿icts and Cooperation, 1865-1898
5.¿Admiral Presley Rixey: The First Authentic White House Physician
6.¿Captain Joel Boone and the Institutionalization of the Office of the White House Physician
7.¿The Military Keepers of the Stethoscope: Doctors Cary Grayson, Ross McIntire and Howard Snyder
8.¿Physician Anecdotes: The Returnee, the Academic, the Consultant and the Defendant, 1953-1981
9.¿Civilian Interlude, Part I: Medical Chaos in Camelot
10.¿Civilian Interlude, Part II: The Specialist Physicians of Presidents Reagan and George H. Bush
11.¿Twenty First Century Presidential: The Doctors Who Treated George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden
12.¿The White House Medical Unit Continues to Evolve
13.¿The Twenty-fifth Amendment and Its Impact on the White House Medical Unit
14.¿Psychiatry and the Presidency
15.¿The Medical Care of Vice Presidents
16.¿Presidential Physicians After Their Tenures
17.¿Final Thoughts
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Ludwig M. Deppisch, M.D., is a professor emeritus of pathology, Northeast Ohio Medical University. A native of New York, he lives in Tucson, Arizona.
