Politically Selective Health Care

As a reminder to the medical politicians, the entire Hippocratic Oath:

https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hippocrates_cos-oath/1923/pb_LCL147.299.xml;jsessionid=2129BE1051282826E2B82BEC1551F10F

Hippocratic Oath

I swear by Apollo Physician, by Asclepius, by Health, by Panacea and by all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgment, this oath and this indenture.

To hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers, and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture; to impart precept, oral instruction, and all other instruction to my own sons, the sons of my teacher, and to indentured pupils who have taken the physician’s oath, but to nobody else.

I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrong-doing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. But I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art. I will not use the knife, not even, verily, on sufferers from stone, but I will give place to such as are craftsmen therein.

Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.

Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain for ever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I break it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.

One of the most egregious cases:

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2015941489516245223

Meet Melinda, a healthcare worker at @VCUHealth.

She posted a series of videos encouraging people to inject ICE agents with succinylocholine, a temporary paralysis drug, and spray poison on them. She also encourages women to go on dates with agents and drug their food.

Melinda's video is at the hyperlink, above.

Malinda Cook is gone:

https://nypost.com/2026/01/28/us-news/virginia-nurse-malinda-cook-fired-after-encouraging-colleagues-to-inject-ice-agents-with-paralytic-drug/

Unhinged Virginia nurse who encouraged colleagues to inject ICE agents with paralytic drug is swiftly fired
By Emily Crane - January 28, 2026

An unhinged Virginia nurse who encouraged medical professionals to drug ICE agents with paralytic meds was swiftly canned.

Malinda Cook, a nurse anesthetist at Virginia Commonwealth University Health, was fired by the hospital on Tuesday after she spewed the disturbing remarks in a spate of TikTok videos.

Cook, who was identified by local media, blasted out her so-called “sabotage” tactics as anti-ICE riots exploded across the country.

“Sabotage tactic, or at least scare tactic. All the medical providers, grab some syringes with needles on the end,” the nurse said on one clip spreading on social media.

“Have them full of saline or succinylcholine, you know, whatever. Whatever. That will probably be a deterrent. Be safe,” she added, referring to the fast-acting anesthetic that causes temporary paralysis.

In another video, the medical professional suggested anti-ICE agitators could target the feds with poison ivy.

“OK for today’s resistance tip, I vote — anybody got any poison ivy, poison oak in their yard? Get some of that, with gloves, obviously, and get it in some water. Like a gallon of water. And get the poison ivy oak water and I’m going to put it into a water gun. Aim for faces, hands,” she said.

She also urged women to lure unsuspecting ICE agents in on dating apps — and then spike their drinks to get them off the streets.

“Single ladies, where these ICE guys are going, have a chance to do something, you know, not without risk, but could help the cause for sure,” she said in the video.

“Get on Tinder, get on Hinge, find these guys. They’re around. They’re an ICE agent, bring some ex-lax and put it in their drinks. Get them sick. You know, nobody’s going to die. Just enough to incapacitate them and get them off the street for the next day. Highly, easily deniable.”

The hospital started investigating the nurse’s sick remarks after the videos, which have since been deleted, were shared on X by LibsOfTikTok and quickly went viral.

Virginia Commonwealth University Health released a statement following Cook’s “sabotage” tactics.

She was let go on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the hospital confirmed.

“We prioritize the health and safety of anyone who comes to us for care. We are aware of a series of videos that appear to have been posted by an individual confirmed to be an employee of our health system,” the rep said in a statement.

“The content of the videos is highly inappropriate and does not reflect the integrity or values of our health system.”

Two more political breaches of the Hippocratic Oath wrap up in Florida:

https://nypost.com/2026/01/30/us-news/florida-nurse-erik-martindale-gives-up-license-after-saying-he-wont-perform-anesthesia-on-maga-patients/

Florida nurse gives up license after saying he won’t perform anesthesia on MAGA patients
By Rachel del Guidice - January 30, 2026, 3:17 a.m. ET

A Florida nurse who said he would not “perform anesthesia” for “MAGA” patients has relinquished his license.

“Effective today, Erik Martindale is no longer a registered nurse in Florida,” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier wrote in an X post Thursday.

“Healthcare is not contingent on political beliefs, and we have zero tolerance for partisans who put politics above their ethical duty to treat patients with the respect and dignity they deserve,” he added.

In a since-deleted post on social media, Martindale said, “I will not perform anesthesia for any surgeries or procedures for MAGA. It is my right, it is my ethical oath, and I stand behind my education. I own all of my businesses and I can refuse anyone!”

Martindale later said that his Facebook account was hacked.

A high-ranking state official familiar with the situation confirmed that Martindale relinquished his license, adding he broke the compact agreement by moving out of state to Indiana without notifying the Florida Board of Nursing.

The portal bearing Martindale’s license number and license verification on the Florida Department of Health’s website says he voluntarily relinquished his license in the “license status” field.

According to Florida’s Department of Health website, voluntary relinquishment “does not constitute discipline.”

Fox News Digital reached out to the Florida Board of Nursing and attempted to contact Martindale for comment.

This comes as another Florida nurse, Lexie Lawler, a former labor and delivery nurse at Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital, was fired last week after posting a video in which she wished Leavitt permanent harm during childbirth.

In her video, Lawler said, “As a labor and delivery nurse, it gives me great joy to wish Karoline Leavitt a fourth degree tear.”

Do medical schools still teach ethics?

The Federalist asks whether it is prudent to automatically assume that all caregivers have the best interests of those cared for at heart:

https://thefederalist.com/2026/02/04/why-are-so-many-nurses-wishing-harm-to-their-political-opponents/

Why Are So Many Nurses Wishing Harm To Their Political Opponents?
By Joshua Slocum - February 04, 2026

Too many Americans cleave to the idea that if someone works in caregiving, they must be trustworthy.

Social media has been abuzz for more than a week over the cruelty on display by some disturbing nurses. Marvel at how brazen these “selfless care workers” are in suggesting that colleagues let agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement just die. You may especially enjoy nurse “Chadrick13again” who sounds exactly like the stereotyped gay guy from the cartoon Family Guy but more murderous:

That compilation from LibsofTikTok is just the latest in a wave of grotesque postings from the heirs of Florence Nightingale. In the past week, three other nurses have posted videos on social media wishing harm and injury on people they see as their political opponents. One urged fellow nurses to put a paralyzing drug into syringes and stick them into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.

Is this truly shocking? Five years after the world saw dancing “TikTok nurses” making music videos at their supposedly overrun hospitals, the public may be less willing to give medical professionals the benefit of the doubt. There’s also evidence that long-overdue consequences for this kind of behavior are coming; one of those three nurses mentioned above was fired, and the state of Florida suspended the license of another.

This raises the question: Is there something about the caregiving professions that attracts not just the altruistic, but also a minority of the sadistic? Published literature on this is mixed, and there aren’t very many papers or studies that look at the issue of dark personality traits in medical and related professions. But some of that literature suggests the healing fields may be attractive to a minority of people who would rather hurt than heal.

Let’s look at what caused the online furor last week. Labor and delivery nurse Lexie Lawler of Florida donned her chunky black glasses to look into a camera and wish disfiguring injury on White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. She expressed the hope that the upcoming birth of Leavitt’s child would result in disabling genital injuries:

That came after a nearly identical display of bloodlust from another nurse, Chanda Petrey-Czaruk. She told the world on camera that she hopes the baby’s head will tear Leavitt “from bow to ____ing stern.”

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo issued an emergency suspension of Lexie Lawler’s nursing license in the state of Florida. Chandra Petrey-Czaruk was apparently fired from her administrative role at an Ohio health care organization, though the company’s statement uses vague language that makes it hard to know exactly when she became a “former” employee.

Another nurse, Virginia Commonwealth University nurse Malinda Cook, urged fellow medicos to put laxatives in the beverages of ICE officers. “Get ‘em sick,” she advised. She also urged nurses to fill needles with a paralyzing agent, succinylcholine, to carry out their ministrations on immigration cops. That drug is a favorite of medical professionals turned murderers, as it has traditionally been almost impossible to detect at autopsy. There are at least five known cases of nurses later convicted of serial murder using the drug.

It is difficult to find much scientific work on the prevalence of dark personality characteristics among those in medicine. What does exist can only be described as “all over the place.” One article rounded up studies that found a high rate (17 percent) of narcissistic personality disorder among medical students. An Indonesian study claimed to find that 30 percent of medical students had a diagnosable personality disorder (caution is warranted with studies from cultures very different from Western societies).

Yet other studies claim the opposite. A 2015 study in the Canadian Medical Journal claimed that “Health care professionals scored significantly lower on narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy than the general population.” One can be forgiven for wondering about in-group bias. As a famous Star Trek episode asked in its title, who watches the watchers?

Whatever the reality may be, it is reasonable to ask whether negative personality traits among medical professionals may be underreported or soft-pedaled. Even taking into account the magnifying distortion lens of social media algorithms, it is clear that medical professionals feel very comfortable publicly expressing sadistic and violent impulses at odds with the Hippocratic Oath. That such people feel safe expressing these views so publicly is new, it is alarming, and it demands attention.

But abusers and even serial killers have long existed in medicine. “Access and Attention: Why serial killers like Lucy Letby often work in healthcare,” published in The Conversation, uses the recent case of a convicted UK serial killer nurse as an illustration.

The author notes that medical professionals like nurses have access to drugs and treatments that can harm or kill. Stir in a dark personality and the danger is clear. Of the known doctor/nurse serial killers, most of them committed their crimes for years under the noses of their colleagues. This paper on medical serial killers notes that “Hospital administrators are often uncooperative with prosecutors and may even obstruct the investigation with reasons being fear of negative publicity, civil suits, and poor record keeping.”

Given the widespread abusive rhetoric and actions of medical professionals against those who refused the Covid vaccines or who tried to refuse dangerous treatments, reasonable people might wonder if there’s a bigger problem in medicine than the field is willing to admit. Part of the problem in trying to answer this question is our confused ideas about what constitutes “real” data. Covid showed us that millions of Americans were willing to close their eyes to medical lies, dangerous medical advice, and mistreatment of patients because authority figures (including the President of the United States) told them to. Obey “the science,” they commanded.

It turns out that “the science” was being manipulated by people like Dr. Anthony Fauci, who was caught in so many dishonest and contradictory statements that many people have lost trust in formerly vaunted institutions such as the National Institutes of Health.

Then consider the widely known replication crisis in psychological research — a majority of studies simply can’t be reproduced with the same results.

If we refuse to entertain the possibility that we may have a problem with sadistic personalities in medicine because “the science” doesn’t say it’s true, then we will repeat the costly mistakes we made listening to authority figures during Covid.

There’s cause for hope and for worry. From this writer’s perspective, too many Americans still cleave to the idea that if someone works in caregiving, they must be trustworthy. And too many Americans still place their trust in “the science” or “the literature,” despite overwhelming evidence that much of it is biased, false, or corrupt.

However, it is heartening to see the swift action taken by Florida to de-license the nurse who smirked at the camera while fantasizing about grave injury to Karoline Leavitt. It’s reassuring that the Ohio nurse who put out a similar grisly video was almost immediately fired. Are proportionate punishments for grave violations of the duty of care making a comeback?

We can hope. But we should not rely on any authority figures or institutions to make our judgments for us — the medical field has covered itself in shame over the past five years. Adults should keep their eyes open and apportion trust and suspicion accordingly.

Joshua Slocum is a writer and commentator focused on the rise in abusive and narcissistic behavior in American society. His weekly podcast "Disaffected", and the show’s Substack, analyze cultural trends through the lens of negative personality traits that mirror the psychology of domestic and child abuse.