Delivering Expert Medical Care - Military, US White House, & Air Force One | Ep 26 | Fountain of Vitality

by, LaMont Leavitt
Feb 09, 2026

About This Video

What happens when a construction electrician’s son from Long Island becomes a Navy flight surgeon flying F 14 Tomcats off aircraft carriers, then serves as a White House physician visiting 44 countries on Air Force One during the Clinton administration? Dr. Rob Darling shares stories from 25 carrier landings as “Goose” in Top Gun jets, protective medical support missions with the Secret Service where “they only have to be right once, we have to be right all the time,” and an emergency in which he helped save a 10 year old girl with a prolapsed rectum after she became stuck on an airplane toilet between Johannesburg and Cape Town.

In this episode of the Fountain of Vitality podcast, host LaMont Leavitt explores how military medicine prepared Dr. Darling for continuity of government responsibilities, why leaders sometimes receive substandard care when they are treated too special, and how artificial intelligence is reshaping diagnosis by pulling together scattered medical records and flagging hidden arsenic exposure behind early type 2 diabetes. You will hear about simulated assassination drills at the Secret Service facility in Beltsville, Maryland, the night President Clinton sent an email from a 25 pound Toshiba laptop to Senator John Glenn aboard the space shuttle, and why AI will not replace doctors but is becoming an essential tool in modern diagnostics.

Step inside the world of carrier decks, the White House, and AI powered diagnosis with Dr. Rob Darling on the Fountain of Vitality podcast. Explore how flight surgery, protective medical support, and smarter data use can reshape your view of modern healthcare and your role in it.