Welcome to Wellness on Mass. I'm Dr. Nicole Sapphire, and this is your weekly rundown.

First, stunning development out of Washington this week, President Biden's personal physician

invoked the Fifth Amendment during a House Oversight Committee testimony where they were asking

him about the president's cognitive health during his four years administration. Now, let's be clear.

This isn't about HIPAA or privacy. The fifth is used to avoid self-incrimination in criminal

matters. Now, as a physician, this is not normal. I can tell you that. If there's nothing to

hide, why not just simply state the president was fit to lead?

Pleading the fifth in this context raises questions like, was there a falsification of medical

records? Like, did he give him cognitive tests and the president failed them, but he covered

them up? Did he omit them entirely despite the fact that every medical organization recommends cognitive evaluations

for elderly patients, and President Biden at the time fit that classification. Was it a political

cover-up? I mean, the public seems to think so. The public has a right to know if their president

is cognitively capable of leading. It's about national security, not personal

privacy. By pleading the fifth, the president's position didn't just dodge a legal question.

He may have betrayed the trust of all Americans. A doctor's duty is not only to protect the patient,

but to protect the public when the patient holds the nuclear codes, if a patient is

suicidal, the physician is supposed to report them because they're a danger to self.

If the patient is homicidal, the physician is supposed to report them because they're a danger to

others.

If the president of the United States is not cognitively fit to be taking these meetings

and be responsible for nuclear codes, the physician had a right and a necessity to tell the

American public. So when you serve the most powerful office in the world, your responsibility

...