Fetterman Is Released From the Hospital After a Fall
Fetterman Is Released From the Hospital After a Fall
The Pennsylvania senator was hospitalized on Thursday after he fell during a morning walk near his home in Braddock, Pa. He required 20 stitches.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/us/john-fetterman-fall-hospital-released.html
Billy Witz
By Billy Witz
Reporting from Pittsburgh
Nov. 15, 2025Updated 4:32 p.m. ET
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Mr. Fetterman, who survived a stroke that nearly ended his 2022 Senate campaign, was taken to a hospital after he became lightheaded and fell on Thursday morning, leaving his face bruised and scratched, his office said in a statement. After he was hospitalized, Mr. Fetterman was found to have “a ventricular fibrillation flare-up,” the statement said.
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Mr. Fetterman, a Democrat who previously served as Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor and the mayor of Braddock, a borough just south of Pittsburgh, has been a polarizing figure in the Senate. A towering, tattooed, hoodie-wearing iconoclast, he has recently angered left-leaning Democrats with his pro-Israel stance, his interest in working with Republicans and his vote (along with six other Democratic senators and one independent) to end the government shutdown. Mr. Fetterman’s latest health emergency came on the same week that he released an autobiography in which he wrote about his battles with depression.
Mr. Fetterman, 56, was stricken on a morning walk from his home across the street from the Edgar Thomson Steel Works along the Monongahela River, a routine that he began to keep his weight in check.
He has been troubled by health issues since at least 2017, when as mayor of Braddock he was diagnosed with a decreased heart pump and atrial fibrillation, a condition in which the upper chambers of the heart beat out of sync with the lower chambers. Five years later, when he was lieutenant governor and running for a U.S. Senate seat, Mr. Fetterman suffered a stroke because of a blood clot related to his condition. The day of the Democratic primary, he was in the hospital having a pacemaker and defibrillator implanted in his heart.
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I wish him complete cure from all his ailments, especially getting too close to Republicans.
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