abundance of caution and admittedly, she s the first lady, so things are maybe a little different with her, or is there something else still that she s going to have done while in the hospital, we just don t know at this point. but to answer your question, it is unusual. most patients would go home same day or next day. real quick, sanjay, first lady s office just put out that statement to kate that says there are hipaa laws to consider. isn t correct me if i m wrong, when it comes to hipaa, doesn t the patient control the information? patient does control the information. just as the president did before, president trump authorized his doctors to give out some information about his health, that is then approved and alolowed and permitted. if the first lady wanted to do that, hipaa violation would be somebody knows something like one of her doctors and is talking without her permission. with embolization procedure she had, does it often require follow-up?
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the hubbub and a lot of the accouterment that come with the president when he was might have been at the request of the first lady to not bring all of that along. great to see you. thanks so much. joining me now to discuss this little bit more is cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, the president with his tweet this morning said that the first lady is going to be leaving the hospital in two to three days. what do you think of the fact she is staying in the hospital for the rest of the week? it is a little surprising and doesn t gibe with what she s had done. i think everyone said this now. i talk to a lot of different people who perform this procedure and asked them about this. we looked at the data in terms of how long people stay after this type of procedure, which, again, was an embolization procedure to the kidney. people go home the same day, kate. sometimes people are worried about pain or something, they may keep patients overnight. whether this was do