On Tuesday's broadcast of Fox News Channel's “The Story,” Dr. Mark Siegel, a Fox News medical contributor and clinical professor at New York University's Grossman School of Medicine, said the Biden administration is still not being upfront about the treatment of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. Stated. It is a “major” surgery and cannot accurately be described as an elective surgery.
Mr. Siegel said: “I think there's even more obfuscation going on here right now. Let me explain: First of all, black men are 2.5 times more likely to get prostate cancer and 2.5 times more likely to die from prostate cancer than white men. Secretary Austin should have come forward because there are so many people in the hospital, and we're forever working to increase screening in the doctor's office, so he could have been, and still is, a spokesperson for that fact. Could be a spokesperson. Second, they call this an elective surgery, but the way I read it, this is a major surgery. To me, it's minimally invasive and That means they used a robot, a da Vinci robot, which is a huge advance. So they can do the surgery with two very small incisions. If I'm right that he used it, there wasn't a lot of bleeding and it's a big, big step forward and he's probably healing. We pray to God that he heals. Even so, I wouldn't call it an elective procedure because it's not an emergency. People think of rhinoplasty as an elective procedure or a cosmetic one. Although this is technically elective, I think it's the wrong term to use, and minimally invasive actually means it's minor… It shows the advances in biotechnology that we can now do that.”
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