Dr. Nicole Saphier
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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As always, thanks for having me on.
Well, hello, I'm an oncologic imager. Of course, I disagree with the USPSTF on just about everything that they put out. And I have a bone to pick with you, actually. You know, I heard you and Adam, you talked about me. You said that I came out and said, well, you know, not every 72-year-old is being screened for prostate cancer, which, by the way, is a true statement.
That's not all I said, though. I said, but it doesn't pass my sniff test that President Biden wasn't being screened for prostate cancer. Because if we looked at his medical records and let's let's be honest, they weren't the most open with us when it came to the former president's health, whether it was his cognitive health, his physical health.
He was still being screened for colon cancer with colonoscopies. He was getting skin check for skin cancer screening. I mean, yeah. Prostate cancer is much more common in a man of his age than colon cancer. So to say that he's still getting screening colonoscopies and not a PSA, I don't buy it.
But in 2019, they said he was being treated for BPH, benign prostatic hyperplasia, which means that he had a prostate test. He had a PSA test. And I doubt it was five years earlier, because if you're actively being treated for BPH in 2019, how are they monitoring that just based on symptoms? I mean, maybe. But come on, let's be honest.
He was the vice president and then he was there some time and then he was the president. Of course, he was getting a PSA test. I don't buy it. I think that they just were not disclosing things to the public, just like we were demanding over and over. I mean, we had many conversations about this, about his cognitive health.
There's no way that someone at his age during an annual exam, especially with his symptoms, his obvious symptoms, they weren't doing some sort of cognitive evaluation. There's just no way. No good, you know, ethical doctor wouldn't be doing that.
Yeah, you know, his position, I think, started with him in 2006 or 2009 when he was vice president. They had a business relationship as well, working on some foundation. So it wasn't purely doctor patient. I mean, hello, where are the medical ethics here at all? I mean, I can't even accept like a bouquet of flowers from some of my patients when I find their cancer. But now you're going to.
do a foundation and stuff together. So there are obviously were some red flags there. I don't really know. I'm not going to say that he's a bad physician. He may be just, you know, keeping HIPAA, keeping things, you know, medical privacy.
And it was really up to the president to disclose his medical history because the reality is medically, ethically speaking, I don't think that that physician could be forthcoming with us if the president said he can't.
I mean, that's a great question. I mean, do presidents actually have to submit their annual exam to us every year? They don't have to. They just do. And of course, I mean, you've read these. I mean, we read them every year because we're asked about to comment on them. And they're full of like hyperbole and bombastic claims. And it's like, oh, look at how strong our president is.
And I mean, that's a great thing. But when it comes to a medical doctor reviewing a medical chart, I mean, this is not a medical chart by any stretch of the imagination.
The Goldwater rule, you're not allowed to comment on a patient unless you've treated them personally. It's like, oh, stop it.
Or if the president develops a shuffling gait, I think we can comment on that too.
Well, from what I understand, they essentially said he had some symptoms. They didn't disclose exactly what they were, but I'm sure we can imagine some sort of urinary symptoms. Or maybe he had bone pain. We don't really know. They didn't tell us. But it elicited examination of his prostate because he said after he presented with symptoms, he looked at his prostate. What was that?
Did they do a PSA? Did they see it was elevated? Did they do a rectal exam? Because they mentioned a nodule. Did they feel it? Did they do a prostate MRI? How did they diagnose the metastatic disease, by the way? I mean, you don't just go from a raised PSA to a prostatic biopsy to now diagnosing metastatic disease unless there's evidence of advanced disease.
One thing that I found very interesting, Drew, is He had MRIs throughout his tenure of presidency of his spine. At least they say that when they were evaluating his degenerative change of the spine, there was no nerve compression, which leads me to think they were looking at the soft tissues with an MRI, not just an X-ray.
So therefore, if there had been metastatic disease earlier on, at least in the spine, which is a very common location for metastatic disease, we would have seen something as the last one we heard about was 2024. But he did get diagnosed with COVID in the summer of 2024. And you remember right after that, about a week later is when he dropped out of the presidential campaign.
Now we know that every time that a president got COVID, they got a CT chest, whether it was indicated or not. So did he get a CT chest during the summer? And maybe they saw something on that examination and that prompted maybe a metastatic disease workup at that time. That's the only thing that has me as a maybe.
Like, can we just call it what it is? There's no way he was not. He was being treated for BPH in 2019. He was getting a PSA. But the thing is, they said he was being treated for BPH. Maybe he was taking like finasteride or some of the other medications to treat the BPH.
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