ER doctor who criticized Trump's actions to be removed from Walter Reed schedule

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

Tweet text:
CBS News
@CBSNews
JUST IN: ER doctor who criticized Trump for greeting supporters from motorcade while infected with COVID-19 will be removed from Walter Reed schedule

ER doctor who criticized Trump's actions to be removed from Walter Reed schedule
Dr. James Phillips criticized the president for riding around in his motorcade to greet supporters.
cbsnews.com
2:32 PM · Dec 7, 2020

[grumpyduck]

1. Fuckers.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. That just about says it all.

[Karadeniz]

3. Ridiculous! Where are your values? Shameful!

[GopherGal]

20. As a contractor, I imagine the renewal of his contract is at the whim of whomever administers it.

And I imagine speaking out of turn about a prominent patient would not be a way to curry favor.

It may have even been an "I'm out of here in 2 months, I might as well say what I want" situation, if his departure was already in the works.

But that's part of the "advantage" of having positions filled by contractors instead of full-time staff who might have labor or union protections that make it hard to get rid of them. Still, in the midst of a pandemic with staffing stretched thin, it does kind of stand out.

[Crunchy Frog]

4. Biden can bring him back, right?

[BGBD]

23. Yes.

[Fullduplexxx]

5. And the diapered little tyrant will be removed from schedule jan 20th

[Cha]

12. YES! & Dr James Phillips will still be a Doctor..

Hope he gets back at Walter Reed if he wants to.

[Blue_true]

6. Another thing that Biden can reverse on Day 1, as well as find out

which superiors approved the removal.

[Cha]

15. Yes, that's what I'd like to know.. on whose

authority was Dr James Phillips Removed for doing his damn job?

[Skittles]

7. W.T.F.

isn't that his job, to point out public health issues?

[elleng]

11. Yes, but don't confuse them with TRUTH and FACTS.

[irisblue]

8. From the CBS source in the above tweet

Dr. James Phillips, the emergency room physician who publicly criticized President Trump's decision to drive with Secret Service agents to greet supporters while he was hospitalized with COVID-19 in October, has been removed from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center's schedule starting in January, according to sources familiar with the situation.

Phillips is chief of disaster medicine at George Washington University and works as an attending physician on a contract basis for Walter Reed, which is located in Bethesda, Maryland. On October 4, after the president rode in his motorcade around the hospital, Phillips tweeted, "Every single person...in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary Presidential "drive-by" just now has to be quarantined for 14 days. They might get sick. They may die. For political theater. Commanded by Trump to put their lives at risk for theater. This is insanity." The tweet has since been deleted.

Walter Reed officials deny they made the decision to remove him, telling CBS News the hospital "provides requirements for contract positions. Schedules are determined by the contractor. There was no decision made by anyone at WRNMMC to remove Dr. Phillips from the schedule."

[Nevilledog]

10. Not the whole article

That suggests that it was Phillips' contractor, GW Medical Faculty Associates, that removed him from the schedule. GW MFA did not respond to a request for comment.

The move comes two months after Phillips' tweet and one month after Mr. Trump was defeated by President-elect Biden. Colleagues of Dr. Phillips were surprised that a disaster medicine specialist would be eliminated from the schedule at a busy military hospital at a time when Maryland is nearing a record high for COVID-19 hospitalizations.

Phillips was hardly the only one to criticize the president for choosing to be in close proximity to Secret Service agents for the brief outing, but he was the only Walter Reed doctor to so publicly criticize the president. Mr. Trump stayed at Walter Reed for four days in October after he was diagnosed with COVID-19.

[irisblue]

18. Thx, I'll update my post

[gratuitous]

13. "There was no decision made by anyone"

I guess Dr. Phillips just took himself off the schedule? Like that self-writing legislation when some little goodie materializes in a "must pass" bill (like the military budget), but nobody knows how that passage just happened to show up in the final bill.

[Cha]

9. On whose authority? Hope he gets back AFTER 1/20/21

Rt TY

[Squinch]

14. Because heaven forfend anyone tells the truth anywhere near Donny Bodybags.

[niyad]

16. What a fragile little ego the murdering orange toddler has.

[Budi]

17. Dr Phillips is now free to join Dr Fauci's team.

Man, there better be a Top Down house cleaning of Trump loyalists come Jan 20.

[Doodley]

19. He should be promoted for speaking the truth, after Trump basically showed he couldn't give a fuck

about the real victims of Covid.

[bdamomma]

21. tRump

a vindictive POS, just go away. Mentally deranged tRump.

[dalton99a]

22. Sounds like somebody called his employer GW Medical Faculty Associates

That suggests that it was Phillips' contractor, GW Medical Faculty Associates, that removed him from the schedule. GW MFA did not respond to a request for comment.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/walter-reed-schedule-doctor-who-criticized-trump-actions-to-be-removed/

In the mid 1990s, The GW University board restructured, selling the hospital in 1997 and divesting The MFA in 2000 when it was incorporated as an independent 501(C) 3 non-profit medical group.

To date, The GW Medical Faculty Associates employs over 2,150 employees located in the US and across the world from as far away as Qatar.

https://www.gwdocs.com/about-the-gw-medical-faculty-associates/our-history/

[GeorgeGist]

24. Chief petty officer is petty.