Three Russian doctors fall from hospital windows, raising questions amid coronavirus pandemic

[yaesu]

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Source: CNN

Moscow (CNN)Three frontline healthcare workers have mysteriously fallen out of hospital windows in Russia over the past two weeks, heightening public attention to the working conditions for doctors and medical professionals amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Two of those healthcare workers are dead, and one remains hospitalized.
All three incidents, which are being investigated by Russian law enforcement authorities, have prompted intense discussion in the Russian press and on social media.

Alexander Shulepov, an ambulance doctor in Voronezh, a city about 320 miles south of Moscow, is in serious condition after falling from a hospital window on Saturday. Local state television, citing regional health officials, said he fell out of second-floor window of the Novousmanskaya hospital, where he worked and was receiving treatment after testing positive for coronavirus.

Shulepov was hospitalized for coronavirus on April 22, the same day he and his colleague Alexander Kosyakin posted a video online saying that Shulepov had been forced to continue working after testing positive for coronavirus.

Kosyakin had also previously criticized hospital administration for protective gear shortages on his social media and was questioned by the police for allegedly spreading fake news.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/04/europe/russia-medical-workers-windows-intl/index.html

[Ilsa]

1. An apparatchik must prove himself worthy to move up

in the Party by definestration of at least one honest professional.

[DBoon]

2. kind of like the legend about how to become a member of the Crips?

except THAT story turns out not to be true

[TNNurse]

3. Pretty sure "fallen" is not quite the right word.

Shoved, pushed, forced all seem a more accurate choice.

[Moostache]

13. They are "unwilling participants in a gravity study"... (n/t)

[cstanleytech]

4. Nothing to see here folks........just another Putin style arranged fall. Move Along!!!

[FailureToCommunicate]

5. Trump must get SO jealous seeing what his buddy Putin can do to his detractors.

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[olddad65]

16. Buddy? boss would be more appropriate. Putin is the president of the US

Trump is just his surrogate.

[FailureToCommunicate]

17. Of course Putin is Trump's boss, but I don't think the puppet is aware of the marionettist pulling

his strings.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

6. Fat Donnie is taking notes on how to get rid of disloyal employees.

If it's good enough for his BFF Putin, it's good enough for him. Don't think the thought didn't occurred to him after he learned about the "accidents." All he'd need is someone ruthless enough to do the job. "Ivanka, here's a million dollars from the small business rescue fund. I'd like you to do me a favor, though..."

[Marcuse]

7. Maybe, maybe not. May they Rest In Peace.

[link:https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/us/er-doctor-coronavirus-help-death-by-suicide-trnd/index.html|

CNN) A New York City emergency room doctor who recovered from Covid-19 and continued to treat coronavirus patients has died by suicide, her father confirmed to CNN.

Dr. Lorna Breen, 49, died a hero, said her father, Philip Breen.

"She was in the trenches," he said. "She was a hero."

[LisaL]

19. I don't think anyone is going to try to commit suicide by jumping out of second story window.

[barbtries]

8. do the russian people

believe that people just fall out of windows all the time? because i have never heard of so many people having "fallen out of window" from anywhere but russia.

maybe they ran out of poison?

[Captain Zero]

9. "raising questions" Gee, ya think?

Maintenance guys questioning the locks on the windows, maybe.
I'm sure scratching my head here.

[Ford_Prefect]

10. They experienced an extreme lack of lateral acceleration while encountering gravity such that

they hit the ground with force equal to a car striking them at 45 MPH. Those were not accidental events. Ask any Journalist working in Russia.

[Lulu KC]

11. Oh yeah, the old falling through the windows trick

[calimary]

12. Isn't that a familiar way to meet one's end in Russia?

I seem to remember reading about other cases where some contrarian who spoke out or somehow ran afoul of dear leader Vlad wound up pushed out an upstairs window.

[llmart]

14. This is why the orange one kowtows to Putin.

He knows that if he doesn't do Putin's bidding, there's a window in a high rise building just waiting for the orange one to "accidentally" fall out of.

[Voltaire2]

15. windows are different in Moscow.

Particularly in high rise buildings, the windows on the upper floors are almost always open, and oddly enough the floors all slope steeply toward the open windows. A lot of people don't know this. The design is known as 'Defenistration Style'.

[ToxMarz]

18. In Russia human rights would seem to start with

banning buildings over one story tall

[mpcamb]

20. What is it with windows and Russian dissidents?

Chrissakes, that kinda action only happens from the top!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

21. Must have made Putin look bad

[dalton99a]

23. Hey, Russia, put some damn bars on your windows

[Omaha Steve]

24. After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING

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