'Grossly Immoral': Doctors Torch Karoline Leavitt's ER Immigration Status Answer
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt sparked outrage on Thursday after dodging a question about whether emergency rooms should check a patient’s immigration status before providing life-saving treatment to them.
Leavitt was asked directly by a reporter: “Should ERs check for immigration status before treating a dying patient?”
She replied, “That’s probably not a question for me to answer. I think that’s a question for health care professionals and legal experts to answer.”
Medical professionals swiftly condemned Leavitt’s evasive response.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/karoline-leaviitt-question-er-room_n_68df69e8e4b061291b148a7c?origin=home-latest-news-unit
If I was a MD and was questioned I think I would try to respond: As you have an oath to respect and honor the U.S. constitution instead of a man or party, we have respect the Hippocratic oath to render medical aid to all.
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Like, no heathcare for Spanish-speaking/brown people? "Sure, because the plague isn't contagious, and even if it was, I don't know any brown people, and even if I did (like my cook or my landscaper), they couldn't possible transmit any contagion to me because my superior white genes will rebuff that shit."
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