This past week, President Trump’s physician released his first full medical evaluation as president. What has in the past been a routine event with a few questions asked in the daily White House press briefing turned into a 90-minute circus with physician-journalists such as CNN’s Sanjay Gupta making sweeping diagnoses from afar.

A basic tenet of medicine is that in order to make a diagnosis you must establish a doctor-patient relationship and have seen and examined the patient. In fact, prescribing medications or making diagnoses without an interaction with a patient violates the rules of most state and local medical boards throughout the United States. Why then does the press (and even physicians who are active in the media) insist on making uninformed and misinformed medical diagnoses when it comes to Trump?