{"id":474,"date":"2005-12-26T21:28:02","date_gmt":"2005-12-26T21:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/26\/more-whitewash-sharons-doctors-report-does-it-raise-more-questions-conflicts-and-contradictions-than-it-resolves\/"},"modified":"2005-12-26T21:51:54","modified_gmt":"2005-12-26T21:51:54","slug":"more-whitewash-sharons-doctors-report-does-it-raise-more-questions-conflicts-and-contradictions-than-it-resolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/26\/more-whitewash-sharons-doctors-report-does-it-raise-more-questions-conflicts-and-contradictions-than-it-resolves\/","title":{"rendered":"More Whitewash?  Sharon&#8217;s Doctors&#8217; Report:  Does it Raise More Questions, Conflicts and Contradictions Than It Resolves?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Todays news conference regarding Sharon&#8217;s condition and his medical record in context with this<\/strong><a href=\" https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/21\/update-on-events-circumstances-and-media-coverage-of-sharons-stroke\/\"><strong> previous post<\/strong><\/a> <strong>and the reports that came before it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1134309647572&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>Doctors Say Sharon&#8217;s Condition Good<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpts;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Prime Minister Ariel Sharon released his medical records a press conference on Monday afternoon.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>The medical briefing was given behind closed doors, with no cameras or microphones. <\/strong>Four of the prime minister&#8217;s doctors were there, including Professor Tamir Ben-Hur, Professor Bolek Goldman (who has served as Sharon&#8217;s doctor for 30 years), physician of internal medicine Dr. Shlomo Segev, and cardiology professor Haim Lotan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Sharon is to undergo catheterization of the heart in two-three weeks, the doctors confirmed. During the procedure, the prime minister will be administered a general anesthetic.&#8221;<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A cardiac catheterization is a procedure where a doctor inserts a thin plastic tube into an artery or vein in the arm or leg. From there, it can be advanced into the chambers of the heart or into the coronary arteries.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The Yediot Aharonot daily reported recently that the prime minister would soon have to be hospitalized again. The paper published Sharon&#8217;s medical file, which indicated that while his general state of health was comparatively good for a 77-year-old man, Sharon suffers from a number of health problems, the most serious of which is excess weight.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/662521.html\"><strong>Night of Stroke, PM was Unable to Make Decisions<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpts;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was unable to make decisions and had difficulty speaking when he was rushed to the hospital after a stroke last Sunday night, his doctors revealed on Monday.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Doctors also said the characterization of the stroke as &#8220;mild&#8221; was mistaken, as Sharon suffered from the stroke&#8217;s effects for more than 24 hours.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Before this detail was released, MK Michael Eitan (Likud) on Monday had called the exposure of Sharon&#8217;s medical file a &#8220;manipulation.&#8221; He said that doctors should unveil not only Sharon&#8217;s test results but also a neurological assessment that would clarify whether the stroke damaged his abilities.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;&#8216;The public must be sure that important decisions are being made by the prime minister and not by Omri Sharon and Dov Weisglass,&#8217; Eitan said, referring to the prime minister&#8217;s son and close adviser.&#8221;<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-3190341,00.html\"><strong>Sharon to Undergo Angioplasty<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will need to undergo a heart angioplasty in the next few weeks to solve a problem stemming from a congenital defect in his heart<\/strong>, doctors said during a press conference in Jerusalem Monday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Ariel Sharon&#8217;s physicians reveal his current physical condition at press conference Monday; advisors ban journalists from videotaping or recording details.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Sharon&#8217;s physicians reported on his medical condition following the prime minister&#8217;s mild stroke last week, adding that he is currently receiving two shots a day to prevent blood clotting.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The doctors also released Israel&#8217;s best kept secret &#8211; Sharon currently weighs 118 kilos.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;While the doctors had promised to reveal Sharon&#8217;s medical records, they only reported on his recent health scare and did not distribute any documents to the reporters present.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todays news conference regarding Sharon&#8217;s condition and his medical record in context with this previous post and the reports that came before it. Doctors Say Sharon&#8217;s Condition Good Excerpts; &#8220;Prime Minister Ariel Sharon released his medical records a press conference on Monday afternoon.&#8221; &#8220;The medical briefing was given behind closed doors, with no cameras or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}