buildup, not common in bypass operations. that was six months after the bypass operation. that was procedure was enormously painful for him. enormously. the recovery took an awfully long time. it took, i think, quite a long time. he s fine now. i saw him a couple months ago and had dinner with him. he s walking, exercising, playing golf. more disciplined about his food than he and i were in 1992 when we were eating our way across america. he s doing everything he can do. and what i keep coming back to, i m so thrilled, nobody is saying he doesn t have to be bill clinton anymore. he cares desperately about haiti, africa and others projects. i ve written enough speeches for him. if he were here this is what he d say. i m going to be fine. i have the best care in the world. there are still hundreds of thousands of people in haiti who don t. go to clintonfoundation.org and give a couple bucks to the clinton/bush haiti relief fund. he s getting good care.
going to find that many people who have significant disease. the problem with ct angiograms is the radiation is incredibly high. they put out studies about that. there are risks to procedures that would diagnose this thing. it s a risk/benefit sort of thing. what was interesting about that interview, it was sort of the first time he really talked about the fact the operation, itself, did have impact on him. he really said he was doing fine. he felt great afterwards. admitted, it discombobulated me a little bit. paul, did you see that difference? big-time, anderson. i think frankly his friends and family maybe saw it more than the public did. he had to have a second operation, sanjay s familiar with this, because of fluid buildup, not common in bypass operations. that was six months after the bypass operation. that was procedure was enormously painful for him. enormously. the recovery took an awfully long time. it took, i think, quite a long time. he s fine now. i saw him a
a couple of things we want to get to with you. the president s doctor calls the blockage experienced by the former president a natural progression of heart disease. do you agree with that characterization of this being a natural progression of heart disease, and do you expect that bypass grafts will close at some point? coronary artery disease is a chronic illness, so one always has to be vigilant for graft occlusion or progression of native disease. it is not uncommon for a graft to close six or eight years after a bypass operation. so is it a fair statement that a closing or closed artery can cause discomfort as in the nature that the former president described, but can it also lead to something more serious, maybe even a heart attack? if not treated promptly, yes, it can cause a heart attack with
paul, did you see that difference? big-time, anderson. i think frankly his friends and family maybe saw it more than the public did. he had to have a second operation, sanjay s familiar with this, because of fluid buildup, not common in bypass operations. that was six months after the bypass operation. that procedure was enormously painful for him. enormously. the recovery took an awfully long time. it took, i think, quite a long time. he s fine now. i saw him a couple months ago and had dinner with him. he s walking, exercising, playing golf. more disciplined about his food than he and i were in 1992 when we were eating our way across america. he s doing everything he can do. and what i keep coming back to, i m so thrilled, nobody is saying he doesn t have to be bill clinton anymore. he s still going to be going out there. he cares desperately about haiti, africa and others projects. i ve written enough speeches for him. if he were here this is what he d say. i m going to be f
president clinton and all of the surgeries and the heart comply cations he has had over the years. explain to us what his medical history has been like. this is somebody who, you know, obviously, received executive-level health care the entire time he was president, and that is well known. he was checked quite frequently while president, and then in 2004, he had this bypass operation, four vessel bypass and surprising to a lot of people at that time that so soon after leaving the white house that he needed a operation like that given how diligent he was about the health care and getting checkups and everything like that as president. after that, he changed a lot of his habits, as has been pretty well known, suzanne. he was exercising with the diet changing. i travelled with him to africa to tanzania and we were, a few of us were having dinner and i made a comment about his selection that night which was a