Harold N. Bornstein, Trump’s Former Private Doctor, Dies at 73

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Harold N. Bornstein, Trump’s Former Private Doctor, Dies at 73

“He dictated that entire letter,” he informed CNN. “I didn’t write that letter.”Harold Nelson Bornstein was born on March 3, 1947, in New York Metr


“He dictated that entire letter,” he informed CNN. “I didn’t write that letter.”

Harold Nelson Bornstein was born on March 3, 1947, in New York Metropolis to Dr. Jacob and Maida (Seltzer) Bornstein. From an early age he needed to be a physician, like his father. {A photograph} in his workplace confirmed him as a smiling younger boy holding a stethoscope to what gave the impression to be a teddy bear, in keeping with a 2016 profile of him the medical information web site STAT. In highschool, he performed in a band known as Doc Bornstein and the Interns.

Dr. Bornstein went to Tufts, exterior Boston, graduating in 1968, and earned his medical diploma there in 1975. He had a powerful allegiance to the college, which 19 members of his prolonged household had attended through the years. He minimize a flamboyant determine on campus, was a great pupil, if irreverent, and wrote poetry underneath the pseudonym Rely Harold.

Dr. Bornstein finally joined his father at his apply in Manhattan and had privileges at Lenox Hill Hospital, additionally on the Higher East Facet. His father at one level had lived in Jamaica, Queens, close to Mr. Trump’s boyhood residence, and a affected person of Jacob Bornstein’s is believed to have launched them. The elder Dr. Bornstein died in 2010 at 93.

Dr. Bornstein was happy with the concierge medical apply he ran along with his father for greater than 50 years. “My biggest successes,” he mentioned in a 2017 interview with a Tufts medical faculty alumni journal, “have been avoiding managed-care drugs and refusing to have the conservative beard and haircut that my dad and mom thought was vital for fulfillment.”

Dr. Bornstein, who lived north of New York Metropolis in Scarsdale, N.Y was married thrice, most not too long ago to Melissa Brown, who survives him. His can also be survived by a daughter, Alix; two sons who’re additionally medical docs, Robyn and Joseph; and two different sons, Jeremee and Jackson, in keeping with the revealed loss of life discover.

Dr. Bornstein was initially happy with the eye he obtained as Mr. Trump’s private doctor, although his notoriety later subjected him and his household to harassment.

The again of his enterprise playing cards, STAT reported, included his identify and beneath that, written in Italian, the phrase “dottore molto famoso” — “very well-known physician.”



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