Clinton Remains Hospitalized Blood Clot Between Brain & Skull [Update]

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LATEST UPDATE2:
Hillary Clinton’s Blood Clot Is Between Her Brain and Skull, but She’s OK

[UPDATE below: Clinton will remain hospitalized for two weeks.]

Secretary of State Clinton hospitalized with blood clot: spokesman

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was sent to the hospital on Sunday with a blood clot stemming from a concussion she suffered earlier this month and was being assessed by doctors, a State Department spokesman said.

“In the course of a follow-up exam today, Secretary Clinton’s doctors discovered a blood clot had formed, stemming from the concussion she sustained several weeks ago. She is being treated with anti-coagulants and is at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital so that they can monitor the medication over the next 48 hours.”

See my earlier post – Who is she fooling?

Back in the Hospital with a Blood Clot, Hillary Clinton Is Not Well

(Atlantic Wire) – Secretary of State and wouldn’t be New York City mayor Hillary Clinton is back in the hospital, after doctors discovered a blood clot related to the concussion she suffered earlier this month. Clinton was admitted to New York-Presbyterian Hospital on Sunday night, so that her treatment team could monitor how she handles the anti-coagulant medication that’s been prescribed to deal with the clot. (Read the State Department’s full statement on her condition here.)

Doctors discovered the blood clot in a follow-up exam for the concussion she suffered just over two weeks ago. Conservatives said that Hillary was faking the injury and her subsequent absence so that she wouldn’t have to testify about the Benghazi attack, but maybe they’ll be a little more understanding now that the former First Lady is back in the hospital, where doctors are taking care of the clots as well as “including other issues associated with her concussion,” to quote Clinton’s spokesperson Philippe Reines. It’s unclear where in Clinton’s body the clot is located, but doctors say she’ll remain in the hospital for two weeks .

Clinton had been all set to return to work after having been gone since mid-December, when she bumped her head. The concussion came after Clinton had been sick for a number of days with the flu, an ailment that prevented her from formally recognizing the Syrian Opposition Council.

NBC’s Robert Bazell about Hillary Clinton being hospitalized for a blood clot (Video)

4 Comments

Oui on December 30, 2012 at 8:34 pm

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One should take time off to grieve for a lost parent, especially someone who has meant so much in her life.
Clinton almost seemed absorbed in her job as Secretary of State and kept a gruweling pace beyond one’s
human limits. I wish her well and a speedy recovery.

Oui on December 31, 2012 at 5:56 am

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Just yesterday I watched a documentary on CNN about tough decision making. One of the persons interviewed was former assistant to Hillary Clinton, Anne-Marie Slaughter.

Why Women Still Can’t Have It All

(The Atlantic) – Last spring, I flew to Oxford to give a public lecture. At the request of a young Rhodes Scholar I know, I’d agreed to talk to the Rhodes community about “work-family balance.” I ended up speaking to a group of about 40 men and women in their mid-20s. What poured out of me was a set of very frank reflections on how unexpectedly hard it was to do the kind of job I wanted to do as a high government official and be the kind of parent I wanted to be, at a demanding time for my children.

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Before my service in government, I’d spent my career in academia: as a law professor and then as the dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Both were demanding jobs, but I had the ability to set my own schedule most of the time. I could be with my kids when I needed to be, and still get the work done. I had to travel frequently, but I found I could make up for that with an extended period at home or a family vacation.

I knew that I was lucky in my career choice, but I had no idea how lucky until I spent two years in Washington within a rigid bureaucracy, even with bosses as understanding as Hillary Clinton and her chief of staff, Cheryl Mills.

BTW, this article is the best read in The Atlantic history.

Marie2 on December 31, 2012 at 2:31 pm

A Sunday follow-up exam seems a bit unusual to me. More likely that she had to seek immediate medical attention.

The initial report of fainting due to flu related dehydration and brushed off as minor troubled me. She was either more seriously ill with the flu and receiving round-the-clock at-home care or the fainting episode wasn’t directly related to the flu. Both are potentially very serious health issues.

Oui on December 31, 2012 at 2:51 pm

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The President’s Physician Book Review

White House military doctors are outranked by their patient, who is the commander in chief, potentially creating conflicts in the patient-doctor relationship. Whenever her boss, the president, insisted on pushing the envelope, Dr. Mariano said, “visions of court-martial danced in my head.”

In 1997, she did yield to Mr. Clinton’s demand that he fly to Helsinki, Finland, to meet with the Russian president, Boris N. Yeltsin, four days after the quadriceps operation. (He needed crutches for support.) But when Mr. Clinton had “the stomach flu” and wanted to continue working, she put her foot down, telling him she would have to tell his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton. “O.K., I’ll listen to you,” he replied, and backed off.

On the other hand, when Dr. Mariano wanted to hospitalize Mrs. Clinton for a blood clot and phlebitis in her leg during the 1998 midterm election campaign, the first lady refused, saying she was too busy. So Dr. Mariano and other experts agreed to treat her as an outpatient with a new blood-thinning drug.

The Rigors of Treating the Patient in Chief

Oui on December 30, 2012 at 8:34 pm

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One should take time off to grieve for a lost parent, especially someone who has meant so much in her life.
Clinton almost seemed absorbed in her job as Secretary of State and kept a gruweling pace beyond one’s
human limits. I wish her well and a speedy recovery.
Oui on December 31, 2012 at 5:56 am

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Just yesterday I watched a documentary on CNN about tough decision making. One of the persons interviewed was former assistant to Hillary Clinton, Anne-Marie Slaughter.

Why Women Still Can’t Have It All

(The Atlantic) – Last spring, I flew to Oxford to give a public lecture. At the request of a young Rhodes Scholar I know, I’d agreed to talk to the Rhodes community about “work-family balance.” I ended up speaking to a group of about 40 men and women in their mid-20s. What poured out of me was a set of very frank reflections on how unexpectedly hard it was to do the kind of job I wanted to do as a high government official and be the kind of parent I wanted to be, at a demanding time for my children.

…
Before my service in government, I’d spent my career in academia: as a law professor and then as the dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Both were demanding jobs, but I had the ability to set my own schedule most of the time. I could be with my kids when I needed to be, and still get the work done. I had to travel frequently, but I found I could make up for that with an extended period at home or a family vacation.

I knew that I was lucky in my career choice, but I had no idea how lucky until I spent two years in Washington within a rigid bureaucracy, even with bosses as understanding as Hillary Clinton and her chief of staff, Cheryl Mills.

BTW, this article is the best read in The Atlantic history.
Marie2 on December 31, 2012 at 2:31 pm

A Sunday follow-up exam seems a bit unusual to me. More likely that she had to seek immediate medical attention.

The initial report of fainting due to flu related dehydration and brushed off as minor troubled me. She was either more seriously ill with the flu and receiving round-the-clock at-home care or the fainting episode wasn’t directly related to the flu. Both are potentially very serious health issues.
- Oui on December 31, 2012 at 2:51 pm
  
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  The President’s Physician Book Review
  
  White House military doctors are outranked by their patient, who is the commander in chief, potentially creating conflicts in the patient-doctor relationship. Whenever her boss, the president, insisted on pushing the envelope, Dr. Mariano said, “visions of court-martial danced in my head.”
  
  In 1997, she did yield to Mr. Clinton’s demand that he fly to Helsinki, Finland, to meet with the Russian president, Boris N. Yeltsin, four days after the quadriceps operation. (He needed crutches for support.) But when Mr. Clinton had “the stomach flu” and wanted to continue working, she put her foot down, telling him she would have to tell his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton. “O.K., I’ll listen to you,” he replied, and backed off.
  
  On the other hand, when Dr. Mariano wanted to hospitalize Mrs. Clinton for a blood clot and phlebitis in her leg during the 1998 midterm election campaign, the first lady refused, saying she was too busy. So Dr. Mariano and other experts agreed to treat her as an outpatient with a new blood-thinning drug.
  
  The Rigors of Treating the Patient in Chief

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