A top doctor is sounding the alarms after it was revealed Mitch McConnell had not been cleared to return to the Senate, but his team claims he's working hard to return "soon."
Dr. Anahita Dua, a vascular surgeon, warned it could be a much longer haul for the 84-year-old than they're letting on, and his staff could be doing the aging senator a harmful disservice.
McConnell claimed to be working hard to return to the Senate and Kentucky "soon" in a statement released by his office on Monday.
His team also enlisted the office of the attending physician to put out a statement for the first time, but it said he was undergoing a "strenuous course of physical therapy and rehabilitation" and "not yet medically cleared to leave the rehab facility."
According to Dua, the message that he's pushing to get back is not what McConnell needs, and based on what is known, it could still be months before he emerges.
"Rehab for frailty, where you need to learn to walk and stuff again, it takes time to build up strength, is in months. That's how long it takes," Dua said. "Months of exercises and constant rehab, sometimes up to three hours, four hours of rehab a day."
She warned that the effort to show his eager return is not in McConnell's best health interests.
"Why are we having this ridiculous expectation of him, and why is he portraying this ridiculous expectation that he's gonna get back to it?" Dua questioned.
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