Every day, my inbox bursts with opinions about everything from poop transplants to climate change. When news in medicine happens, someone will inevitably email me offering an op-ed.
Except on one topic: the health of the major presidential candidates. Almost no one wants to touch it.
This first became clear to me last year, soon after I started my job as First Opinion editor. Even in spring and summer 2023, the discourse wondered whether President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump were too old to occupy the White House for another term. Around the same time, Sen. Mitch McConnell had frozen while speaking, while then-Sen. Dianne Feinstein had died after several years of concerns about her ability to perform her duties.
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