'Grossly Immoral': Doctors Torch Karoline Leavitt's ER Immigration Status Answer

[LiberalArkie]

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.

[Walleye]

1. If Karoline were telling the truth, she wouldn't have to be yelling and talking like a machine gun

[sarisataka]

2. That question has a very simple answer

No

You treat the person in need first. Everything else is secondary

[intheflow]

3. MAGA is so dumb.

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."