Joe Biden’s doctor recently assured America the former vice president and Democratic frontrunner “is a healthy, vigorous, 77-year-old male, who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency …”

But Dr. David Scheiner, former president Obama’s personal physician who signed off on his fitness for office, isn’t convinced.

Scheiner examined the medical report released by the Biden campaign at the request of The Washington Examiner, and his assessment is the career politician is “not a healthy guy.”

Scheiner said Biden is doing fine for an old man, but there are a lot of potential problems.

“He’s not in bad shape for his age, but I wouldn’t say he’s in outstanding health,” Scheiner said. “Could I guarantee he won’t have issues for the next four years? He has a lot of issues that are just sort of sitting there.”


Kevin C. O’Connor wrote in a health assessment issued Sunday he’s been Biden’s doctor since 2009, and he listed four different “current health” problems: Non-Valvular Atrial Fibrillation, Hyperlipidemia, Gastroesophageal Reflux, and seasonal allergies.

Essentially, Biden has an irregular heartbeat, high cholesterol, acid reflux, and allergies.

“For these, he takes three common prescription medications and two common over-the-counter medications,” O’Connor wrote. “He does not use any tobacco products, does not drink alcohol at all, and he works out at least five days per week.”

The doctor also shared a brief “medical and surgical history” that includes:

Non-melanoma skin cancers

Brian surgery in 1988 for an intracranial hemorrhage

A second aneurism removed during the same surgery

Complications from the 1988 brain surgery that included deep vein thrombosis and a pulmonary embolism

Prostate surgery to remove a benign enlarged prostate

Surgery to remove gallbladder in 2003

“Mild diverticulosis” – pouches that bulge outward through the colon or large intestines

“Additionally, he has received multiple physical therapy treatments and surgeries, for various sports medicine and orthopedic injuries,” O’Conner wrote. “Obstructive Sleep Apnea has been considered, but his symptoms have improved after his sinus and nasal passage surgeries.”

Scheiner, himself 81, was taken aback by Biden’s lengthy list of medical problems.

“I had no idea Biden had such a history,” he said. “My goodness gracious, he’s got a lot of history.”

The health of the elderly field of presidential candidates has become an issue in 2020, from President Trump’s criticism Biden is “not playing with a full deck,” to Trump’s own unscheduled visit to Walter Reed National Military Center in Maryland in November.

Biden’s stutters, misstatements, brain freezes and his eye filling with blood during a live debate have drawn the most attention. Through his campaign, Biden has confused decades, names, dates, places, and repeatedly forgotten Obama’s name. Biden also regularly slurs his words, and is often forced to change subjects when he loses his train of thought.

In October, Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders suffered a heart attack while campaigning, and the 78-year-old still has not released any of his medical records. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, 70, also has released little medical information, other than a brief one-pager earlier this month in which her physician declared she “is in excellent health,” the Examiner reports.