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Vice President Dick Cheney’s personal doctor, who has been battling an addiction to prescription drugs, has been dropped from Cheney’s medical team. The doctor, Gary Malakoff, has been a prominent spokesman for Cheney’s health since declaring him “up to the task” of high office, despite having suffered four heart attacks. Cheney’s cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, said Malakoff never treated anyone when a monitoring committee “felt that he should not be working.” But Malakoff was relieved of his duties after the committee determined in May that he was too impaired to take care of his patients. Hospital officials where Malakoff worked said Cheney had been informed of Malakoff’s addiction to a narcotic nasal spray, Stadol, in 2000.
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