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Trump in 'exceptional health,' says his doctor after visit to Walter Reed

President Donald Trump is in exceptional health," his physician said Friday after he underwent a checkup that included lab tests and preventive health assessments at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Trump spent roughly three hours at the Bethesda, Maryland, hospital earlier Friday for what his doctor, Navy Capt. Sean Barbabella, called a scheduled follow-up evaluation" that was a part of his ongoing health maintenance plan. While there, Trump also got his yearly flu shot, as well as a COVID-19 booster vaccine. President Donald J. Trump remains in exceptional health, exhibiting strong cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological and physical performance, Barbabella wrote in a one-page memo released Friday night by the White House. The doctor noted in the memo that the evaluation helped prepare for Trump's upcoming overseas trips and included advanced imaging, lab testing and preventive health assessments. The president is travelling to the Middle East this weekend and is ...