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Yeah, let's go through the different ways to claim a president unfit for duty:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/presidential-disability-is-a-political-question/527703/

Section 3 of the Amendment enables a president to declare himself temporarily disabled by sending a written declaration to the president pro tempore of the Senate and the speaker of the House stating that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. In this case, the powers and duties of the president are transferred to the vice president, who becomes acting president, until the president sends another a written declaration that he can resume his duties. Section 3 procedures have arguably been invoked three timesonce by Ronald Reagan and twice by George W. Bushduring medical procedures.

Section 4 of the Amendment, by contrast, enables the vice president and either the principal officers of the executive departments (the Cabinet) or another body as Congress may by law provide (a disability review body) to declare the president disabled by sending their own written declaration to the Senate president pro tempore and the House speaker. The president can respond in writing that he is not in fact disabled; the vice president and Cabinet (or disability review body) then have four days to respond. Congress then has 48 hours to decide the question (or 21 days if Congress is not in session.) If two-thirds of both houses of Congress decide that the president is indeed disabled, the vice president becomes acting president; otherwise, the president remains in office.

Going through the document and looking for "doctors" the piece explains over and over again that it's not the doctor's job to declare a president unfit for duty, it's all a political process.

So yes, military fiction is wrong.