NC medical student brags on Twitter about deliberately harming patient who mocked her pronoun pin

[Anonymous]

She needs to be disciplined. There was another incident I think at Mayo Clinic where a Muslim resident said she would mistreat Jewish patients. She was also disciplined quickly. This is similar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She needs to be disciplined. There was another incident I think at Mayo Clinic where a Muslim resident said she would mistreat Jewish patients. She was also disciplined quickly. This is similar.

That was intentional.

This was not.

That said, she shouldn’t have tweeted about it. Bad judgement there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She needs to be disciplined. There was another incident I think at Mayo Clinic where a Muslim resident said she would mistreat Jewish patients. She was also disciplined quickly. This is similar.

OMG, what's wrong with you? That is so completely different.

[Anonymous]

If she gets away with this, what’s next?? “They didn’t identify my sexual orientation correctly and assumed I’m married to a man, so I took them off life support. They deserve to die. That’s what they get.”

[Anonymous]

Even if it wasn’t intentional, it’s pretty clear from the tweet she either was implying she did it intentionally, or she’s lacking empathy and finding some joy in the fact that she accidentally missed and had to stick the patient twice. Either way, she’s not suited for working with patients, because during her career she’s going to encounter a LOT of patients who rub her the wrong way, and she can’t go around feeling gleeful that those patients felt pain.

[Anonymous]

Everything about health care in this country is so messed up.

[Anonymous]

FFS!

[Anonymous]

Since when do med students do blood draws?

[Anonymous]

Intentional or not she took pleasure in the fact that she had to stick the patient twice and proudly tweeted about it. That sadistic woke moron doesn't belong in the medical field.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She is in for a difficult career if she lets this kind of thing bother her. Just spend a few evening hours in your local ER. It is a rare shift if your life isn’t threatened.

I think at the very least this is unprofessional behavior. Not to mention beyond stupid.

+1

It's incredible that the tone of her tweet is as if she's joking around about sticking a patient. And the cover some PPs are handing her, of "sounds like she stuck the patient unintentionally" is just that -- cover for her bragging about it. Intentional or not, she's taking pleasure in having caused a patient pain. The patient was a jerk. That does not matter, medically. Except maybe to this doctor.

And PP is right, she needs thicker skin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Intentional or not she took pleasure in the fact that she had to stick the patient twice and proudly tweeted about it. That sadistic woke moron doesn't belong in the medical field.

I’m sure they all take small pleasure when small harmless errors happen to a-hole patients.

Her mistake was tweeting about it.

[Anonymous]

There is a BIG difference between intentional malice vs being stupid. She was being stupid for sure but her stupidity doesn't prove she intentially harmed her patient

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So if someone gets her really, really mad then what will she do? Not administer pain medication, deliberately harm a patient in another way? What she did shows a total disregard for the medical profession. If residency programs actually do a simple Google search she is never going to get matched. Her whole career as a doctor could be over. I would never willingly want her to treat me.

The bold is an excellent point. Even if you take down your accounts, all of them, things live forever on the internet. Forever. This is something to impress on your kids, people. Her tweet has already been captured and spread around and taking down all her accounts won't change that. She can pay huge amounts to a company that pushes positive "hits" higher if someone searches about her online (yes, there are such businesses) but eventually that tweet will surface. Tell your kids: Act the fool on social media and it never dies. It will bite you later, as it will bite this person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a BIG difference between intentional malice vs being stupid. She was being stupid for sure but her stupidity doesn't prove she intentially harmed her patient

Interesting that some PPs here seem to be almost defending her and assuming "innocent until proven guilty" about her intentions.

Doesn't matter. The text of the tweet is potentially career-ending.

Here's why it's so awful even if the sticks were unintentional: She's finding it amusing and satisfying that a patient was harmed by her, and whether that harm was intentional or not, she's still smugly satisfied that it happened. That attitude is not merely stupid, it's cruel. Deciding to tweet it is what was stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a BIG difference between intentional malice vs being stupid. She was being stupid for sure but her stupidity doesn't prove she intentially harmed her patient

If she stuck the patient twice on purpose then it is intentional malice. From her tweet it sounds like this is the case. She stuck the patient again after they made a comment regarding her pronoun pin. I don’t know if this was a blood draw or inserting an IV but sticking a patient multiple times increases the chances of infection, bruising and obviously pain.