OAN Staff Abril Elfi
3:22 PM – Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Kevin O’Connor, former President Joe Biden’s physician during his White House term, has asked to delay his testimony before the House Oversight Committee.
On Tuesday, O’Connor requested a delay, citing the need for an agreement that will respect doctor-patient confidentiality rules as part of the investigation into Biden’s health in office.
O’Connor is set to give a deposition Wednesday as part of the committee’s investigation into Biden’s mental capacity and use of an autopen signing device. In a letter to the committee’s chair, Representative James Comer (R-Ky.), David Schertler, an O’Connor lawyer, requested that the testimony be moved to the week of July 28th or August 4th.
In the letter, Schertler expressed concern that O’Connor would be unable to safeguard doctor-patient confidentiality during the testimony, and that the committee had rejected to rule out any constraints on the scope of the deposition.
“Dr. O’Connor has legal and ethical obligations that he must satisfy and for which violations carry serious consequences to him professionally and personally,” the letter reads. “We are unaware of any prior occasion on which a Congressional Committee has subpoenaed a physician to testify about the treatment of an individual patient. And the notion that a Congressional Committee would do so without any regard whatsoever for the confidentiality of the physician-patient relationship is alarming.”
A spokeswoman for Oversight Republicans stated that the committee will adhere to the House’s deposition standards, which allow witnesses to assert privilege on a question-by-question basis, with the committee chair deciding on each claim. The committee, however, believes that O’Connor cannot postpone or deny a congressional subpoena because of concerns about possibly confidential information.
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