An apparent medical emergency interrupted President Barack Obama’s final news conference of 2016 on Friday.
While responding to a question on the humanitarian crisis in Syria, the President broke off in the middle of a sentence.
“What’s going on? Somebody’s not feeling good?” Obama asked. “We can get our doctors back there to help out.”
He resumed his response, but broke off again.
“We need to get a doctor in here, I think,” a reporter said. “Can that be arranged?”
“Can somebody help out, please, and get Dr. Jackson in here?” Obama asked. “In the meantime, just give her a little room.”
A few minutes later, the doctor apparently arrived.
“There he is,” the President said. “Okay. Doctor’s in the house.”
The stricken reporter was a 66-year-old woman who fainted twice in the packed briefing room and was being treated by Obama’s physician, MSNBC’s Chris Jansing reported.
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“Okay. Doctor’s in the house.”
He is sooo cool.
Yeah he is. This reminds me a little bit of a story in the news in Italy yesterday. The former first lady, Agnese Renzi, helped a motorcyclist who was hurt in a crash on the highway. The picture was the best - Agnese was wearing jeans and red heels that had to be 5 inches high = she looked incredible getting out of her car to go help. So Italian.
So cool.
I’m going to miss her and Renzi. They were pretty close to the Obamas.
Now imagine Doctor Bornstein as White House Doctor.
What a good guy.
His anticipated successor would have made fun of the person.
Imagine Trump’s 3:00 am Twitrum because she took attention away from him.