Meet the White House doctor who greets Joe Biden every morning

As the entirety of America – and the rest of the world – seeks to amateurishly assess the health of 81-year-old President Joe Biden, two salient questions loom: Where, and who, is the Commander-in-Chief’s doctor?

The answer is Kevin O’Connor, a jovial 58-year-old military physician who’s been treating the Biden family for years. And he holds tremendous power — Biden reiterated this week that he’d reevaluate running “if I had some medical condition that emerged, if somebody, if doctors came to me and said, You got this problem and that problem.”

And unlike seeing a patient for a yearly physical, O’Connor spends nearly every day in very close proximity to Biden, staying in the hotel room next to him when they travel and greeting him each morning. His office is right across from the elevator from which Biden emerges every day, and the President must pass it “every time he goes to and from the Oval,” the doctor told military medical podcast WarDocs earlier this year.

“That’s by design for a number of reasons; Number One is, we are literally assessing every day,” said O’Connor, the married father of three daughters. “Think about it: You have a conversation, you’re assessing their breathing, their mentation, their dentition, their hearing assessment, their color, and so part of it is just for that exposure.”

Aside from diagnosing Biden with Covid this week, however, O’Connor has been quiet in recent months about the President’s cognitive condition. And he is facing more and more demands for answers after Biden’s repeated disastrous appearances on the 2024 campaign trail – particularly as Democrats worry the President is unfit to take on Trump in the high-fervor, high-stakes race.

O’Connor should be accustomed to scrutiny; he’s