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Bit more with how many nights she spent in the hospital with how much down time she did have those three weeks. it does make a bit more sense, certainly, but i don't think her office or the first lady herself, she's very private, i don't think she wanted those details perhaps made public. >> a procedure on her kidney. what does the first lady's office say? >> the statement the president said was correct, what they put out was correct. it was an embolization procedure. it was successful so they're certainly not pushing back on what the president said. i think he just revealed more details to th...

Incredible doctors, walter reed medical center. they did a fantastic job, so thank you. she sends her love. >> let's bring in our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, tell us about this embolization procedure, what kind of hospital stay this would normally involve. >> this is a procedure as opposed to a surgery where you're actually making an incision and examining the kidney in this case directly. with this it's sort of like a large i.v., if you will, in one of the blood vessels and a catheter is put through that blood vessel and threaded to the area up around the kidney and ...

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...

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 thi...

Decision. and this was requests that was likely made by the first lady. you stay there. i'm going to do this. let's keep it under the radar. don't tweet about it. and we'll get through it. >> yeah. sanjay, can you just explain why you think -- do you think it's as kate said an abundance of caution why she would be staying there many extra days? >> this is the biggest open question mark i think, alisyn. i don't know. this type of procedure just an embolization procedure, they can do this as an outpatient. come in the morning, leave the same day. sometimes out of caution because there's a concer...