Physicians, heal thy hate
Do open-minded, tolerant Boston progressives ever get tired of hating?
You can’t let a Trump supporter eat in peace at a restaurant. You march in the streets to oppose a free speech rally.
OK, fine. But a hospital? Really?
Yesterday first lady Melania Trump came to Boston Medical Center to highlight a program that uses cuddling as a form of treatment to help infants born dependent on drugs or alcohol. “It is my hope that (what) we discuss today will encourage others to replicate similar programs in their own communities,” she told the caregivers treating babies with neonatal abstinence syndrome. And how did Boston respond?
With hate.
“She’s married to Donald Trump, and he is such a symbol of so much of what we stand against,” said Dr. Sara Stulac, a BMC pediatrician.
That’s right: Melania Trump literally came to Boston to give hugs to sick babies, and progressives still protested. Doctors, nurses and medical professionals.
At what point do your politics pollute your mind so much that you can’t see how wrong it is to bring your hate to a hospital?
Protesting the president? I get that. Protesting a cabinet secretary like HHS’s Alex Azar, who was at BMC yesterday, too? Sure. Go for it.
But the first lady? While she visits drug-addicted infants in the neonatal ward? What’s next — pushing little old ladies wearing MAGA hats into oncoming traffic?
And what happens when injured or ill Trump supporters show up in the emergency room of BMC? Are they treated? Or do Dr. Stulac and her fellow high-minded protesters shout “Orange Man Bad!” and shove them back into the streets?
It’s a serious question when you’re dealing with people who believe, as many Trump haters do, that politics trumps all. It is a serious question when medical doctors are so deeply biased that they set aside all professional ethics and introduce politically inspired hatred to a hospital environment.
On the medical website “Stat,” fourth-year Harvard psychiatry resident and Stat columnist Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu wrote she was “alarmed” to learn of Melania’s visit. Why? Because “Illness in this country is political,” Okwerekwu wrote. The very presence of Melania, she fears, might “jeopardize the social, emotional, and physical health of the type of families I serve.”
Illness is political? Can she tell if my cancer is Democratic or Republican? If a Trump supporter bleeds, will it form the letters MAGA?
If illness is political, then politics, for the likes of Okwerekwu and Stulac, has become a disease.
Physicians, heal thy hate.
There’s a point where progressives’ obsessiveness says nothing about Trump’s policies but everything about their own character. Like those poor, opioid-exposed infants who Melania sought to aid, they’re addicted.
Addicted to their own hate.
from Boston Herald https://ift.tt/2NTrR46
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