Did your doctor celebrate Charlie Kirk's Assassination?

This is chilling! 

New Jersey Doctor Resigns After Nurse Reports Him for Celebrating Charlie Kirk’s Death in Hospital

Think about it. You are scheduled for surgery and go for your pre-op appointment.  You're in the waiting room and your doctor starts celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk...in front of you, other patients and hospital staff. In a previous appointment he asked about the little feet pin on your jacket lapel. You told him you are pro-life and spent years doing sidewalk counseling talking to women going into abortion facilities. He gives you some pushback about a woman's right to choose. It makes you a little uneasy, but not enough to cancel your appointment. But then you witness this a week before your scheduled cancer surgery his statement that Charlie Kirk deserved what he got! 

What would you do? Can you trust him to treat you differently than Charlie? Does he have the same opinion about your right to life? Does he feel like you will "deserve it" if you don't make it through surgery? Will he be less than diligent about his treatment of you considering he loathes your beliefs?

Frankly, if I witnessed this doctor's behavior, I would be up and out of there in a New York minute, canceling my surgery until I found another doctor.

But what if you aren't there to schedule a surgery? What if the ambulance brought you to the ER with an emergency that required immediate surgery? How would you feel if you heard the doctor as you were being prepped telling other staff that he was happy over Charlie Kirk's murder?

We all took a direct hit in confidence of the medical establishment because of COVID. Some of us who were already skeptics know that many doctors really don't have our best interests at heart. My experience in the pro-life movement has made that only too obvious! But now, to see medical people we may deal with on a regular basis, cheer for the deliberate murder of people with whom they disagree politically...well, it's a further blow. How can we be confident about those we trust with our care or the care of our children and grandchildren? 

I met with my family doctor this morning. I see him every six months now because I'm a type 2 diabetic. He is a Bible-believing Christian who started the free clinic in Woodstock and always takes time to discuss things with me thoroughly. We don't agree on everything. I don't take any meds for my diabetes; my numbers aren't that bad. Every time he sees me we go through the shingles vaccine and the flu and pneumonia shot discussion. I don't take any of them. He would like to put me on statins for high cholesterol. So far, I remain unconvinced. I'll be 79 in March and the thought of dying doesn't particularly scare me. It can only happen in God's time. I trust that my doctor is giving me the best advice he can based on his 30 years experience. But I don't have to follow it, and, frankly, extending my life a few more years (which may or may not happen if I follow his medical recommendations) is not particularly persuasive. I don't have a death wish, but I'm drawn to St. Paul's statement and look forward to saying, "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." [2 Timothy 4:7] Please, God, that I may be able to say that on my deathbed.

Sad to say, many doctors today do not embrace the concept of "First do no harm?" The classic hippocratic oath included this statement:

With regard to healing the sick, I will devise and order for them the best diet, according to my judgment and means; and I will take care that they suffer no hurt or damage. Nor shall any man's entreaty prevail upon me to administer poison to anyone; neither will I counsel any man to do so. Moreover, I will give no sort of medicine to any pregnant woman, with a view to destroy the child. Further, I will comport myself and use my knowledge in a godly manner.

The modern hippocratic oath eliminates respect for all life and, in fact, includes the provision to deliberately kill:

Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty.

We truly do live in a culture of death. It would behoove all of us to be ready to die at every minute. Look around you. No one you love, nothing you own will go into the coffin or the cremation urn with you. You will be on your own before God. Let us all make sure we are ready every minute for that moment when we stand before the judgment seat of God and have to answer for ourselves. The devil will be there to accuse us. Let us pray we have already accused ourselves and been forgiven.

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.