A top doctor called out the White House’s baffling claim that President Donald Trump got an MRI for “preventative” reasons, saying there was “nothing standard” about getting the scan.

Dr. Jeffrey A. Linder, chief of general internal medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, told the New York Times that advanced imaging has never been a typical part of a presidential physical—contrary to what the White House claimed Monday.

“There is nothing standard about an executive physical,” Linder told the newspaper Monday. “There is no medical specialty that recommends that an otherwise asymptomatic individual get imaging.”

“There is a reason we don’t test everybody for everything all the time,” he continued. Unnecessary testing for an individual who doesn’t need it can le

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