When caregivers abandon 'Do No Harm'

 by Kevin Finn

An unexpected danger is lurking in the health care and service industries — people whose ideologies are so extreme that they’ll endanger the very people they’re supposed to be serving.  We’ve seen stories of restaurant workers refusing to serve law enforcement, or sabotaging their food.  We’ve seen hotels rescind reservations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

There have also been cases where people have been murdered by nurses and by doctors.  This doesn’t include the thousands of people who’ve been euthanized under the Orwellian-named “Medical Aid In Dying” program.

But recent stories remind me of stories from the Third Reich’s inhumane experiments conducted on concentration camp prisoners, or the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study.  When medicine is subordinated to ideology, it betrays its core principle of “do no harm.”  People in caregiving roles whose political zeal leads to fantasies of weaponizing their medical knowledge against their perceived opponents endanger us all.

In Virginia, a health care worker posted videos on social media encouraging violent or disruptive actions against ICE agents.  She suggested medical providers fill syringes with saline or succinylcholine, a powerful paralytic drug, to use as a “deterrent.”  She also proposed extracting poison ivy or oak, steeping it in water, and using water guns to spray the solution at agents’ faces and hands.  She went on to urge women to match with ICE agents on dating apps and slip laxatives into their drinks.  She described this gambit as “highly, easily deniable.”

Her posts prompted immediate outrage over an ostensibly professional person with access to deadly substances advocating chemical attacks and poisoning.  She was placed on administrative leave by her employer, Virginia Commonwealth University Health (VCU Health), who went on to call her content “highly inappropriate.”  Quite the understatement.

In Florida, a labor and delivery nurse targeted White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who is expecting a child.  She wished Leavitt would “rip from bow to stern and never s--- normally again” during childbirth.  Florida surgeon general Dr. Joseph Ladapo has since revoked her nursing license and emphasized that threats undermining patient confidence could not stand.  Women in delivery rooms, indeed every person under the care of a doctor, nurse, CNA, or other health care professional, need resolute trust in their providers.  Ideologically driven vitriol shatters that trust.

In Sydney, Australia, Liverpool Hospital treated an elderly Jewish woman who had been wounded by shrapnel and gunshots to the head during the Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre last year.  This attack was carried out by Islamic terrorists who were associated with an ISIS cell.  The hospital assigned her the alias “Karen Jones,” giving her a wristband that omitted her religion.  They claimed it was to protect her from media scrutiny.  The woman, however, believed that the measure stemmed from the fear of radicalized staff or community backlash.  In 2025, nurses from nearby Bankstown Hospital promised to “send Jewish patients to hell” and refused to treat them.  The woman in Liverpool Hospital spent her stay crying as she felt compelled to conceal her identity in a place meant for healing.

These incidents demonstrate a disturbing pattern.  Health care workers at all levels hold tremendous power of life and death.  When a person’s political views degenerate into malice toward certain groups, the potential for abuse skyrockets.

What terrifies me more than these stories themselves is the realization that these are just the people we know about.  These gremlins actually posted their intentions on social media platforms.  How many other health care professionals are walking around just waiting for the opportunity and the guts to take action against those they deem their enemies?

Will it spread?  What happens if or when a car mechanic sabotages someone’s brakes or engine because he doesn’t like what he read on a bumper sticker?  Must we become suspicious of our plumbers and electricians?  We no longer trust our public school teachers and college professors, and the favorability ratings of bureaucrats and elected officials hovers somewhere near that of athlete’s foot.

This cannot continue.  Professional standards demand impartiality and do-no-harm principles.  When these fail, the kind of swift accountability we saw demonstrated in Florida and Virginia becomes essential to safeguard the public.

Societies must remain vigilant.  Professional expertise should never serve as a tool or a weapon for ideological vengeance. 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/01/when_caregivers_abandon_do_no_harm.html