A letter purporting to come from Hillary Clinton's doctor about the candidate's health is a total fake, says Lisa Bardack, director of internal medicine at Westchester County-based CareMount Medical.

Fake letters, fake images, fake medical records — the whole thing is fake, and the disinformation campaign about it on conservative media and social media, from Sean Hannity to Twitter, has gone on since Clinton's 2012 concussion and ramped up since the presidential race began. The Clinton campaign sent out an article on FactCheck.org which contains a statement from Bardack that says, in part, "I have recently been made aware of allegedly 'leaked' medical documents regarding Secretary Clinton with my name on them. These documents are false, were not written by me and are not based on any medical facts."

Hillary and Bill Clinton live in Chappaqua, New York. Bardack is a doctor with CareMount Medical, previously known as Mount Kisco Medical Group, a large regional practice. Fact-checkers took a look at the documents and noted some red flags: her title is wrong, and the "letterhead" is just a Microsoft Word document.



The Washington Post reported that Clinton's campaign set the faked documents in the context of right-wing politics. "While it is dismaying to see the Republican nominee for president push deranged conspiracy theories in a foreign policy speech, it's no longer surprising," said Jennifer Palmieri, the campaign's communications director, according to the Washington Post. "Donald Trump is simply parroting lies based on fabricated documents promoted by Roger Stone and his right wing allies."

An article on Polifact, "What we know about the health of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton," discusses the health — and the political issues connected thereto —about Clinton, 68, and Trump, who is 70.