Watchdog files misconduct complaint against Biden’s doctor over cancer diagnosis
- July 9, 2025
Steven Richards, Just the News
A private watchdog group on Wednesday filed a complaint of physician misconduct against former presidential doctor Kevin O’Connor for “unprofessional” treatment of former President Joe Biden, according to the filing reviewed by Just the News.
The complaint comes as O’Connor is set to testify before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday regarding former President Joe Biden’s mental and physical decline during his time as president.
The group, Protect the Public’s Trust, contends that the former president’s personal physician was left with “unenviable choices” in his care of President Biden surrounding the politician’s diagnosis of advanced prostate cancer after leaving office.
The group argues that a president’s physician has “obligations beyond those governing other health care [sic] providers.” In a normal doctor-patient relationship, the doctor’s sole duty is to the patient, who may require secrecy. But, a White House physician has “a duty to the American public,” PPT argues.
“Either he failed to meet the minimum standard of care owed President Biden and the American public by not detecting a cancer that likely developed under his watch (or that had developed previously, in which case he should also have detected it), or he submitted a false report as a part of his official duties,” reads the complaint submitted to the Washington, D.C. Board of Medicine.