Statement by Dr. Jonathan Reiner, Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at George Washington University Hospital
November 13, 2004
The Vice President has departed George Washington University Hospital and has returned to his residence. The Vice President, complaining of a productive cough and shortness of breath, was evaluated at George Washington Medical Center today. Tests ruled out any cardiac cause of the Vice President's symptoms. Tests also ruled out pneumonia and other pulmonary causes. The Vice President likely has a viral, upper respiratory infection.
George W. Bush, Statement by Dr. Jonathan Reiner, Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at George Washington University Hospital Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/281166