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SIEGEL: "I have to tell you, I think there’s more obfuscation going on here even now. I'll explain. First of all, Secretary Austin should have come forward because 2.5 times more black men get prostate cancer than white men, and 2.5 times die more. We’re trying forever, in the doctor’s office, to increase our screening. So he could have been and still can be a spokesperson for that fact. Secondly, they call this an elective procedure, but this is major surgery from the way I'm reading it, minimally invasive. To me, that implies they used the robot, the Da Vinci robot, which is a huge, huge step forward. So it can be done through two very small incisions, if I’m right that they used the Da Vinci, and you don’t lose a lot of blood and it’s a major, major step forward, and he's probably cured. We pray to God that he’s cured. But that is not what I would call an elective procedure, even if technically it is because you don’t have to have it emergently. People think of nose jobs as elective procedures or something cosmetic. This is elective technically, but I think it’s the wrong term to use. Minimally invasive implies it’s minor when it actually shows biotechnological advances that we can now do that. Then to your question, he develops an infection, which can happen after any surgery, and then they thought it was urinary first and then they found fluid in the abdomen and it was pushing on the bowel, they had to decompress the bowel while they treated the infection. Again, modern medicine came to the rescue and thank God he seems to be okay. This can happen after major surgery like this."