President Trump, The Physician to the President and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment MoCA

President Trump's cognitive facilities are fine, according to Dr Jackson, the Physician to the President. The President himself had asked the doctor to perform a cognitive test.

Dr Jackson has been at the White House since being chosen during George W Bush's presidency, working under the then Physicians to the President Air Force Brigadier General Richard Tubb. President Trump then raised Jackson to his current post in 2013.

The doctor is also known as the 'Shadow of the President', as he always accompanies POTUS on his travels and is capable of providing emergency surgery if needed. I hadn't realised that, according to Wikipedia,

'Air Force One is equipped with emergency medical equipment, an operating table, and operating room lights installed at the center of the presidential plane for emergency use by the White House doctor, but does not have an X-ray machine or medical laboratory equipment.'

So how do you assess the President's cognitive facilities? The physician used the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA). The MoCA is a one page test for mild cognitive impairment that can be conductied ina bout 10 minutes. Available in 55 languages, you can find an English  version here: http://dementia.ie/images/uploads/site-images/MoCA-Test-English_7_1.pdf.

We had our boiler serviced today and the engineer discovered that not only had his father serviced the same boiler back in 2004, he had also trained a number of the other engineers who had left their names inscribed on the inside door of the boiler.