Harold N. Bornstein

Dr. Harold Bornstein, who for time was President Donald J. Trump’s personal physician and who had attested that Mr. Trump would be “the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency,” died Dec. 15. He was 73.

Dr. Bornstein a gastroenterologist, was Mr. Trump’s personal physician from 1980 to 2017. When Mr. Trump was elected president in 2016, Dr. Bornstein had hoped to be named White House physician. But he was expelled from the Trump orbit after he disclosed to the New York Times that the president was taking medication to make his hair grow.

In 2018, Dr. Bornstein finally said publicly what many had suspected all along: that Mr. Trump himself had written the letter saying he would be the healthiest president ever. “He dictated that whole letter,” he told CNN. “I didn’t write that letter.”