I’m a physician and have taken care of some of the worst people imaginable. Never once did I treat them any differently than other patients. My job is to treat patients to the best of my abilities regardless of who they are.
I’m thinking of UCSF where a friend who has been a patient there for many years has been experiencing antisemitism and is afraid to get her treatment through them.
One would hope that your friend was able to document something, and present the documentation to some party that will try to address what I going on. Doing so is probably a long haul; project with no certainty of producing anything noteworthy.
perhaps she might contact the Jewish Community Relations Council. I consider them to have influence and reach, and are knowledgeable about where and how to access "resources". If your friend can validate her complaint with documentation....I can envision something happening as a result.
Vancouver Jewish health care providers established an association to monitor antisemitism and antizionist activity in hospitals, universities and unions. They’re discovering shocking testimonies from Jewish staff and students.
Quite the opposite in Israel where anyone is treated equally and to the highest standards, regardless of ethnicity and religion. Including children from Gaza and the West Bank.
Schara Tzedeck Hospital, an orthodox organization, employs and provides medical care for all; supervisors are quick to intervene LOUDLY if admissions or wards hear of any issues. Friday afternoon Shabbat meals delivered by volunteers are also non discriminatory.
Leaving the USA or the UK isn’t easy, but you’re needed in Israel! Even if the Haredi Shomer tries to keep Hametz out of Hadassah every Pesach.
I'm in Vancouver, not Jewish, but locally, the ppl I've noticed who are the most overt in their antisemitism, were in the medical field. I can think of two former friends who blocked me because I told them certain things were antisemitic, and both worked at VGH. They openly derided the Jewish doctors reporting antisemitic posts etc. It seemed to be very common at that hospital, to the point I'd feel uncomfortable going there, because to hear them tell it, they were not in the minority
You’re so right that the bias really is different in the medical field. It is a matter of life and death. Obviously all kinds of antisemitism are unacceptable but medical antisemitism is especially bad.
The partnership between Islam and the Left has amplified what was once covert antisemitism into overt Jew hatred that occurs across the entire population spectrum. The partnership is well-funded, highly organized, and incredibly effective at giving permission for Jew haters to come out of the closet.
Sadly, what has been brilliantly described in this piece is the beginning, not the end. IslamoLeftist ideology has co-opted academia, much of the media, and the entertainment space—allowing their ruinous and vile messaging to be broadcast every minute of every day.
Based on anecdotal evidence, it looks as if the medical field is one of their targets. Sure, it starts slowly, but it’s toxicity ruins everything, including adherence to the Hippocratic Oath. What Gad Saad calls “suicidal empathy” precludes any effective counterattack.
Don’t forget the arts space. Jewish and Israeli Writers and artists are getting pushed out and walled off in droves. Stay tuned for upcoming article about this in Moment magazine.
I read about Baruch in London, packing up his home in Golders Green for Israel, and Dr. Emmanuel Moss leaving the chief cardiac surgery post in Montreal for Atlanta. I read that some doctors have reportedly said they would refuse to treat a patient because of where that patient was born. As a physician, I cannot let that pass in silence.
I am an ophthalmologist. I treat everyone who walks through my door — regardless of race, religion, or creed, and regardless of whether they can pay. I do this because it is the whole of what our oath means. The person in front of you gets treated. You do not check their passport. You do not poll the room about their politics. That promise is older than any of us, and it is the reason a stranger trusts another stranger to operate on them.
To the colleagues who feel they have no choice but to leave: I see you, and I am sorry that the institutions meant to protect you have failed. A profession that drives out its own healers over who they are loses far more than it knows — the operations not performed, the residents not trained, the patients who wait longer or are never seen at all. The patients stay. The expertise leaves. The gap between the two is measured in suffering.
To any clinician who would refuse to treat a patient on principle: you have abandoned the one duty that makes us doctors, and you have forfeited the right to practice. The refusal is the violation. No one has to die for the oath to be broken — turning a patient away because of their nationality is itself the betrayal. A physician who does this should lose their license and their privileges to treat patients. There is no cause that justifies it, and there is no place in medicine for those who believe otherwise.
I stand in solidarity with the physicians being pushed out of Britain and Canada. And I recommit, publicly, to the standard that should need no recommitting: care for every patient, every time, no exceptions.
It makes me sick (pun fully intended) to learn of increasing antisemitism in the West, even in professional fields like the healthcare. It makes me even sicker to see that the Western political leaders are serving up nothing more than platitudes to tackle it. Can you imagine the uproar, by the same politicians and media, if the mistreated community was Muslim or Blacks or Latinos?
The sad truth is that the powers in charge, so mostly the so called 'Progressives' have made a silent political calculation that the emerging votebank of Islamists is more important to them then purported principles that they loudly espouse. They still lecture rest of the world about equality and non discrimination, hypocrisy in its most naked form.
The other reason for meekly permitting such blatant antisemitism is that the West is submitting to ever demanding and militant Islam. It has now ingested so many of rabid Islamists that the domestic unrest and terrorism by them has become a real possibility, The 'Conservatives' don't get a pass. They too have been complicit, save a few. It feels like the West tolerated the Jews after the Holocaust but now that shame is wearing off.
It doesn't bodes well for the Jews, and it doesn't bodes well for any other 'kafirs'. Because history has shown that in each of the lands the Islamists conquered, they have eliminated Jews and other minorities first and then the majority itself. If one needs an example, pick any country that became Muslim majority and see how that happened. Persia would serve as a very good example, as would Pakistan.
When our son had a hernia operation at 2 years old his roomate in the children’s hospital was a young Bedouin child whose mom also stayed in the room. This was in Soroka Medical Center, Be’er Sheva. Both children and parents received equal care and respect.
Every few weeks an all staff email comes from execs in Australia (Health) wishing various happy holidays to staff, Muslim, Hindu, Christian, but never a Jewish holiday...this is in parallel with a Royal Commission on antisemitism in full swing and two nurses are being prosecuted for being caught on video saying the quiet part out loud. Its what is not said, what is not done that is obvious to some of us, and invisible to many.
I’m a physician and have taken care of some of the worst people imaginable. Never once did I treat them any differently than other patients. My job is to treat patients to the best of my abilities regardless of who they are.
Amen to this.
Very powerful! The health system here in San Francisco may soon follow suit. So much antisemitism abounding in the Bay.
I live in the east bay. I use the VA healthcare system, as well as Kaiser. So far, I've noticed no overt red flags.
I’m thinking of UCSF where a friend who has been a patient there for many years has been experiencing antisemitism and is afraid to get her treatment through them.
One would hope that your friend was able to document something, and present the documentation to some party that will try to address what I going on. Doing so is probably a long haul; project with no certainty of producing anything noteworthy.
She has met twice with the chancellor. Nothing much has come of it, that I know.
perhaps she might contact the Jewish Community Relations Council. I consider them to have influence and reach, and are knowledgeable about where and how to access "resources". If your friend can validate her complaint with documentation....I can envision something happening as a result.
https://jcrc.org/
Address: 121 Steuart St #301, San Francisco, CA 94105
Phone: (415) 957-1551
It makes me so sad that we even need to disseminate this information.
We have serious problems, though not Kaiser or the VA. I would be happy to share with you and Naomi (it involves UCSF and the East Bay) offline.
nodig@netzero.net
I live in the Bay and wear a Magen David regularly. I've been fortunate...so far. What's been your experience?
My beautiful Magen David is around my neck, on a silver chain. Sometimes, just for shits and giggles, I make sure it is visible. No one fks with me.
Vancouver Jewish health care providers established an association to monitor antisemitism and antizionist activity in hospitals, universities and unions. They’re discovering shocking testimonies from Jewish staff and students.
Quite the opposite in Israel where anyone is treated equally and to the highest standards, regardless of ethnicity and religion. Including children from Gaza and the West Bank.
Schara Tzedeck Hospital, an orthodox organization, employs and provides medical care for all; supervisors are quick to intervene LOUDLY if admissions or wards hear of any issues. Friday afternoon Shabbat meals delivered by volunteers are also non discriminatory.
Leaving the USA or the UK isn’t easy, but you’re needed in Israel! Even if the Haredi Shomer tries to keep Hametz out of Hadassah every Pesach.
And if I recall correctly, Israeli medical personnel treat imprisoned terrorists as well.
They even saved the life of the notorious Sinwar who later used everything he had to try to destroy them all
Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com › hamas-gaza-leader-survived-tumor-operation-israel-reports-2023-10?op=1
"Israeli doctors saved the life of Hamas leader, whom they now blame for ...
Israel blames Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas Gaza, for the October 7 attacks. He had surgery for a brain tumor while in an Israeli prison."
Yes, that was one who came to my mind, although his name didn’t.
I'm in Vancouver, not Jewish, but locally, the ppl I've noticed who are the most overt in their antisemitism, were in the medical field. I can think of two former friends who blocked me because I told them certain things were antisemitic, and both worked at VGH. They openly derided the Jewish doctors reporting antisemitic posts etc. It seemed to be very common at that hospital, to the point I'd feel uncomfortable going there, because to hear them tell it, they were not in the minority
You’re so right that the bias really is different in the medical field. It is a matter of life and death. Obviously all kinds of antisemitism are unacceptable but medical antisemitism is especially bad.
The partnership between Islam and the Left has amplified what was once covert antisemitism into overt Jew hatred that occurs across the entire population spectrum. The partnership is well-funded, highly organized, and incredibly effective at giving permission for Jew haters to come out of the closet.
Sadly, what has been brilliantly described in this piece is the beginning, not the end. IslamoLeftist ideology has co-opted academia, much of the media, and the entertainment space—allowing their ruinous and vile messaging to be broadcast every minute of every day.
Based on anecdotal evidence, it looks as if the medical field is one of their targets. Sure, it starts slowly, but it’s toxicity ruins everything, including adherence to the Hippocratic Oath. What Gad Saad calls “suicidal empathy” precludes any effective counterattack.
Don’t forget the arts space. Jewish and Israeli Writers and artists are getting pushed out and walled off in droves. Stay tuned for upcoming article about this in Moment magazine.
Islamo-Stalinist
I liken them to the Sendero Luminoso, or even Khmer Rouge.
you're right hen!
I read about Baruch in London, packing up his home in Golders Green for Israel, and Dr. Emmanuel Moss leaving the chief cardiac surgery post in Montreal for Atlanta. I read that some doctors have reportedly said they would refuse to treat a patient because of where that patient was born. As a physician, I cannot let that pass in silence.
I am an ophthalmologist. I treat everyone who walks through my door — regardless of race, religion, or creed, and regardless of whether they can pay. I do this because it is the whole of what our oath means. The person in front of you gets treated. You do not check their passport. You do not poll the room about their politics. That promise is older than any of us, and it is the reason a stranger trusts another stranger to operate on them.
To the colleagues who feel they have no choice but to leave: I see you, and I am sorry that the institutions meant to protect you have failed. A profession that drives out its own healers over who they are loses far more than it knows — the operations not performed, the residents not trained, the patients who wait longer or are never seen at all. The patients stay. The expertise leaves. The gap between the two is measured in suffering.
To any clinician who would refuse to treat a patient on principle: you have abandoned the one duty that makes us doctors, and you have forfeited the right to practice. The refusal is the violation. No one has to die for the oath to be broken — turning a patient away because of their nationality is itself the betrayal. A physician who does this should lose their license and their privileges to treat patients. There is no cause that justifies it, and there is no place in medicine for those who believe otherwise.
I stand in solidarity with the physicians being pushed out of Britain and Canada. And I recommit, publicly, to the standard that should need no recommitting: care for every patient, every time, no exceptions.
It makes me sick (pun fully intended) to learn of increasing antisemitism in the West, even in professional fields like the healthcare. It makes me even sicker to see that the Western political leaders are serving up nothing more than platitudes to tackle it. Can you imagine the uproar, by the same politicians and media, if the mistreated community was Muslim or Blacks or Latinos?
The sad truth is that the powers in charge, so mostly the so called 'Progressives' have made a silent political calculation that the emerging votebank of Islamists is more important to them then purported principles that they loudly espouse. They still lecture rest of the world about equality and non discrimination, hypocrisy in its most naked form.
The other reason for meekly permitting such blatant antisemitism is that the West is submitting to ever demanding and militant Islam. It has now ingested so many of rabid Islamists that the domestic unrest and terrorism by them has become a real possibility, The 'Conservatives' don't get a pass. They too have been complicit, save a few. It feels like the West tolerated the Jews after the Holocaust but now that shame is wearing off.
It doesn't bodes well for the Jews, and it doesn't bodes well for any other 'kafirs'. Because history has shown that in each of the lands the Islamists conquered, they have eliminated Jews and other minorities first and then the majority itself. If one needs an example, pick any country that became Muslim majority and see how that happened. Persia would serve as a very good example, as would Pakistan.
Great article again, Hen. This is unofficial apartheid in England.
When our son had a hernia operation at 2 years old his roomate in the children’s hospital was a young Bedouin child whose mom also stayed in the room. This was in Soroka Medical Center, Be’er Sheva. Both children and parents received equal care and respect.
Every few weeks an all staff email comes from execs in Australia (Health) wishing various happy holidays to staff, Muslim, Hindu, Christian, but never a Jewish holiday...this is in parallel with a Royal Commission on antisemitism in full swing and two nurses are being prosecuted for being caught on video saying the quiet part out loud. Its what is not said, what is not done that is obvious to some of us, and invisible to many.
I’ve treated Nazis with SS tattoos as my obligation to patients
They’ll just import more Muslim doctors. That’s the plan.
Yes. “Cultural competency” is the given reason. The true reason is more sinister
I'm aware of an MD with serious antisemitic issues and have wondered if i should report him to the board.
Yes! Yes! Document and report. He has no business being in healthcare.
Britain and Australia really seem to be paralleling each other here. It isn’t yet that bad in most of the US, but we will see how that goes…
European civilization is dying and this is just one small example of why. Good riddance.