Donald Trump is fine. According to Trump's individual doctor report, erstwhile U.S. Navy captain Sean Barbabelli, U.S. president "still enjoys excellent health" and is able to do his occupation without any problems.
The results of Donald Trump's medical examination were published in mid-April and contain details of his height, weight, blood force and another parameters. curious people can read about the medical tests that the president passed during regular checks, the drugs he takes to control cholesterol levels, and the fact that his appendix was removed at age 11.
Sean Barbabella besides stated that Trump had sungly passed a cognitive function test (30 out of 30 points!) and that his perfect condition besides stems from his "active lifestyle"; in the end Trump has already won many golf tournaments. It is hard to find specified information about German Chancellor Olaf Scholzu and not only due to the fact that he is not known for playing golf. In Germany, the public knows almost nothing about the wellness of the head of government.
No wellness information available
For the purposes of this text, the DW wanted to learn from the press office of the German government, which doctor treats the Chancellor, why there is so small public information about his wellness and where erstwhile heads of government were treated. We did not ask for delicate information specified as whether Scholz inactive has appendectomy or how advanced his blood force is. Nevertheless, we have received the answer: "We ask you to realize that we are mostly not speaking about the Chancellor's medical care."
However, we know that the German Chancellor has no individual physician. The head of the German government does not take doctors with him on business trips or state visits unless there is simply a peculiar reason. There is no permanent doctor in the Chancellery in Berlin. If you request medical help, a renowned infirmary Charité is just a five-minute drive away.
No individual doctor
It can be assumed that Olaf Scholz does not gotta sit in overflowing waiting rooms. besides Angela Merkel, during her 16-year term, most likely seldom had to wait for months to see a specialist. However, any may wonder why the head of the government of the economically strongest European state does not have a individual doctor on demand.
Since no authoritative information is available, we can only speculate. 1 of the reasons for this could be assurance in a solid public wellness strategy in Germany. Another explanation of the clear difference between the medical care of the heads of government of the United States and Germany may be their different position in the apparatus of power.
“No German politician has the power of the American president,” said Ronald D. Gerste, a German ophthalmologist and historian who lives in Washington, DC. "The Chancellor's illness would not have serious consequences in principle, as Germany is not a presidential democracy: the cabinet would inactive meet and make decisions," he explained.
More respect for Privacy
The fact that Germany has small information about the wellness of its heads of government may besides be due to culture. Unless there is apparent reason to be concerned, fewer reporters would have thought to ask about the Chancellor's heart rate or his medication. In Germany, privacy is valued more than anything else and this besides applies to Chancellors.
"In principle, people, and in practice the media, respect the private lives of politicians in Germany to a greater degree than present in the US," says Coliquio Ronald D. Gerste: "And ruling diseases are treated with akin discretion." Of course, this does not mean that German Chancellors do not get sick. It's just not usually announced in public.
Depression, syncope, tremor
Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany from 1969 to 1974, reportedly suffered from depression; he regularly withdrew from public life for a fewer days. Shortly before his resignation, a message was published stating that he had a “fever cold”. Years later he admitted, “In fact, I was exhausted.”
His successor, Helmut Schmidt, who held office until 1982, suffered from Adams-Stokes syndrome, in which he is repeatedly unconscious due to short-term cardiac arrest. "I was most likely unconscious about a 100 times. usually for a fewer seconds, but sometimes for a fewer minutes," he said. "We managed to hide it and it did not prevent me from acting as head of government," he added.
Chancellor Angela Merkel observed respective cases of body tremors in the summertime of 2019, causing uncommon questions in the press and among the public about her health. The authoritative reason for this tremor was then dehydration. It was only after leaving the office that Merkel admitted that advanced temperatures and besides small water were not its only causes.
"My mother's death truly affected me" she said in an interview in 2022. Angela Merkel and her parent were very close. Herlind Kasner, however, died in April 2019, about 2 months before the first public case of the tremor of Chancellor Merkel's body.
