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Doctors and Hospitals Refusing to Treat Law Enforcement Officers – HotAir

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Doctors and Hospitals Refusing to Treat Law Enforcement Officers – HotAir

According to both the law and medical ethics, doctors and hospitals are required to treat emergency cases. There is also an expectation that medical professionals will behave… professionally, and not let their personal opinions determine their willingness to treat patients or their level of care. 





Of course, nobody can force a doctor to work on a patient in non-emergency situations, but we are now moving into an era where doctors and nurses are allowing their political opinions to influence their work, and in turn undermining the faith of a large fraction of the population that they can safely use the health care system without worrying that some political activist will not treat them, or treat them with the same care with which they would a different patient.

I have written several times before about how politicized medicine has become, and how medical journals and medical schools have ventured into politics, up to the point of promoting the use of politics to determine medical care. The distribution of the COVID vaccine was influenced by race, with minorities being put higher up on the list when the vaccine was scarce than patients with multiple risk factors, and transplant lists have been rejiggered to place some racial minorities higher on the list as a measure of racial “equity.” 

Cancer patients have been dropped by clinics for holding the “wrong” political views, and Vinay Prasad described his first brush with political medicine when a resident lectured a dying patient on his political views. 





I talked to him about his leukemia, and discussed his wishes. He was certain that he wanted no further treatment. I asked him if he wanted to know what he might expect. He did, and we talked about it. At last, he thanked me for my time, and said this.

“I like you, Doctor. You are an honest man.”

I stood to go, and then he added, “Not like Hilary Clinton, that liar.”

I smirked. “Oh boy, sir, don’t get me started on those politicians,” I said with a neutral look, allowing his comment to dissipate, and leaving my own opinions out of it. He was pleased with the answer, and I turned to leave.

Then my resident interjected, “Actually, sir, it’s Donald Trump who is the liar!”

What the hell is going on, I thought, but she continued. The patient became visibly angry, as did the resident, and they exchanged heated words for the next minute. I worked hard to diffuse the tension, made some general comments to please all parties, and finally, with great effort, I got the patient calm, and the resident in the hall.

We walked back across the bridge. My initial shock had been replaced with bewilderment. What had I just witnessed? I was so lucky to have established a rapport with the patient and defused that conversation. And honestly, I needed to unpack this with some senior faculty. I had never seen anything like it. I have never seen a resident pick a fight with a patient about politics.

After a few minutes, when I was again relaxed, I decided I had to address it with her.

“So, if I might ask: why are you arguing with the patient about politics?” I said as neutrally and as slowly as I could.

She started to explain why Donald Trump was bad and how she supports Clinton. I nodded. This part I understood. She felt him voting for Trump was dangerous, and felt compelled to speak up.

“So, follow up question: do you think his vote will determine the election? In Oregon?” I asked— knowing the electoral map was solidly blue.

Again, she offered an explanation.

“Now, what do you think about his white count? Where do you think it be on election day?” I asked.

Then, as nicely as possible, I made the argument to her that our goal on this service was not to change votes, but to help people as much as we could. It was best that our patients didn’t know our political views, and vice versa.





After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, I was shocked to see doctors and nurses celebrating his murder. “First, do no harm” has transmogrified into “die, conservative!”

With the latest political battle over immigration policy, doctors and nurses are again beginning to let their political freak flags fly, with one hospital denying service to an injured police detective in New York because they suspected he worked for ICE. 

Let’s be clear about this — hospital staff refused to treat plainclothes NYPD detectives injured in the line of duty. Not only that, these officers were treated with contempt completely outside ethical bounds for medical personnel.

From what I understand, staff supposedly did this because they thought the NYPD officers might have been ‘ICE agents’ as if that is a valid excuse to refuse a patient.

Let’s be very clear about something — when doctors and nurses and medical staff begin to refuse critical care over perceived political differences, we will have reached a breaking point in this country.

If this behavior is allowed to continue, and is not met with swift condemnation and consequences by the mayor and government leadership of New York as well as medical licensing boards and the professional community at large, trust in the medical profession will be shattered beyond repair.

Even during wartime, doctors and nurses were bound to treat the wounded of both sides. And they could be trusted to provide competent and compassionate care no matter who they were treating. It was, in fact, a badge of honor for the profession.

If the medical profession has now abandoned that basic morality, and patients now have to worry about being refused treatment — or worse — because of political hostility from their own countrymen, then a rubicon has truly been crossed and there isn’t much else to say.

This is a disgrace, it is unacceptable, and it is indicative of the profound moral rot that progressive activism has brought into every corner of our civics.

The left is taking us down a very dark path indeed.





Last week, two NYPD Detectives were mistreated while seeking medical attention at NYU Langone – Cobble Hill Emergency Room after being injured on duty during the arrest of a violent perpetrator. Upon arrival, they were met with rudeness, disrespect, and a lack of basic professional courtesy by hospital administrators.

It is an outrage that any NYPD Detective injured in the line of duty should have to worry about being treated at any hospital in the city they protect.  As nurses across the city strike over issues like workplace safety, treating Detectives poorly is not how to make hospitals safer. 

No one—especially Detectives injured in the line of duty—should face such treatment. The DEA is investigating this matter and will pursue all available remedies to ensure our members are treated with the dignity and respect they have earned.

When I was growing up, I recall reading stories about how blacks were refused aid by law enforcement, and how some doctors didn’t want to treat civil rights workers. Those stories were appalling, and as importantly, those stories were shared because all decent people should be appalled by them. 

Those police officers and doctors had every right to believe whatever they wanted, but all decent people expected them to treat all comers with the same level of care and respect out of professional duty. 





Well, it turns out that our friends on the left don’t actually believe in that principle at all. According to them, there is no such thing as universal human rights, just rights for those they happen to sympathize with. We have seen that the claim that “nobody is above the law” is a hollow sentiment when spoken by them—they deploy it because they know that decent people believe that, so it makes for good propaganda—and we see the same thing in all realms of society. 

After the Charlie Kirk assassination, the trend for medical professionals to celebrate his death got so bad that a nurse called out a doctor for doing so in the earshot of patients. 

The hospital backed him and suspended her. 

Are we moving to a system of “separate but equal” when it comes to medicine? I once asked a doctor for a recommendation for a specialist and they specifically recommended one based on his politics, not because they knew I would want a conservative doctor—I didn’t care—but because they knew that some of their colleagues would care that I was a conservative activist at the time. 





They feared I would not get good treatment from those doctors. I can understand why, now. 

It has gotten that bad. No doubt most doctors and nurses are professional and would treat each of us equally, but some will not, that it is a concern. 

I’m a physician, I work at a VA as well as a large academic university hospital. 

I don’t think you understand. The medical associations are all leftist captured. 

Nurses, doctors, patient care techs, radiology techs etc etc all walk around with pride flags and tr*ans flags on their ID badges, BLM and pronoun pins on their white coats, and other outwardly leftist political symbolism. The rot is deep. Medical associations are in on it.

When a Democrat walks into a hospital or doctor’s office and sees all those flags, political pins, and hears the snarky comments about politics, they may not even notice, or may vaguely feel like they are in friendly territory. 

What they probably don’t think about is how somebody on the other side feels. At their most vulnerable—in medical distress, and likely scared—they are made to know they are in hostile territory. 


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