This tweet’s been making the rounds Monday night, but we’re just going to say: something’s not right. Either the post is fake, or the surgeon seems to think he should tweet about a gunshot death and blame the NRA … before informing the family of the victim?
Anyway, the photo’s a little disturbing, so scroll down a bit unless you can’t stand the sight of blood:
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16 y/o GSW to the Aorta.@NRA his mother is in the waiting room. Should you tell her he didnt make it? Didnt think so. #stayinmylane #ThisISMyLane pic.twitter.com/YZ0i0zUkI8
— Robert (@ScrubbedCTSurg) November 12, 2018
Um …
Are doctors supposed to be doing this? https://t.co/vLhGquVK49
— Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) November 13, 2018
I mean, was the kid shot by an @NRA member? Does this guy even know or care? Aren't there privacy laws about this sort of thing?
— Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) November 13, 2018
Only when it’s real.
— NoCoupForYou (@IChoseFakeNews) November 13, 2018
This can't be real, can it?
— LaLa43 (@LaLa4311) November 13, 2018
It's horseshit: pic.twitter.com/pXYUBr64kD
— Azathoth (@ArkhamRealty) November 13, 2018
Only one tweet, huh? Either “Robert” waited 8 years to post his first tweet — a selfie from the operating room — or he scrubbed his timeline before posting this one. Did he do that from the operating room too?
so, this guy has ONE tweet, is following 2 people, and this reporter from CNN believes this is real. What was that about fake news? pic.twitter.com/eYKYELPLF8
— chels (@thefunnymuggle) November 13, 2018
The Planned Parenthood RT tells you all you need to know pic.twitter.com/bfvmHfbRlv
— Ben McDonald (@Bmac0507) November 13, 2018
Not buying this is real, but perhaps due to me naively clinging to the belief that someone in this position would NEVER EVER do something like that. https://t.co/cKz4I7akf7
— neontaster (@neontaster) November 13, 2018
Medical mistakes kill 20x more people every year than guns.
Maybe take fewer selfies and screw up less. https://t.co/sQQpdYZLSV
— …I thought Ordys could fly (@OrdyPackard) November 13, 2018
Nothing like the classic, Post-Patient-Dying-on-Me-Selfie https://t.co/gwIHZnipVc
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 13, 2018
You are on twitter attacking the @NRA while a mother is in the waiting room?!? WTH is wrong with you? https://t.co/bvaVjFGPWP
— Kathleen (@katnandu) November 13, 2018
This is everything wrong w the doctor God complex. A mom waits in the waiting room and he goes to twitter to use her son’s blood for RTs. https://t.co/P7QUtSjQXs
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) November 13, 2018
I’m sorry but you’re not an expert on guns because you deal with its effects on a spleen. You are a doctor. Not a lawmaker.
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) November 13, 2018
Don’t get too excited until CNN’s Jim Sciutto up there gets in contact with Robert the surgeon and he goes on the record, OK? Imagine how busy he’d be if he reported on every abortion for CNN.
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Update:
Huh … and this one went up just a couple of days earlier:
To the @NRA, this is what it looks like to stay in #mylane. We will not be silent about the toll of #gunviolence. I speak out for this patient, for their parents who will never be the same, for every person who came after this one and didn’t have to #thisiseveryoneslane pic.twitter.com/B5mo6pC4dV
— Kristin Gee, MD (@kmgee9) November 10, 2018
Maybe you should be addressing criminals, Dr. Martyr.
— Beef Critter (@MetricButtload) November 13, 2018
I was gonna ask, where does the shooter come into this conversation. Killing is illegal right?
— Jerry T (@jerryterm) November 13, 2018
This #mylane hashtag seems to be a thing. Use it in a blog post, sure.
Below is a post I wrote during residency to ease my grief after losing a patient who was shot. @NRA, as long as our patients are hurt or killed because of #gunviolence, you’ll find us marching in OUR lane. #mylane #ourlane pic.twitter.com/TF8ddauF6G
— Dina Madni, MD (@DinaItum) November 11, 2018
What physician stops treating patients to learn if a firearm used was legally acquired (NRA recommended) or illegally acquired (disproportionate in crimes)?
And … how come they don't understand this fact? https://t.co/0MgaXIXe3X— Sandy (@RightGlockMom) November 13, 2018
Still having trouble with Robert’s post: so many ethical questions, and not about the NRA.
Did you ask the mother if you could post a pic of her dead child’s blood on the internet to attack the @NRA? If not, you don’t get to use her loss to score political points. Sicko. https://t.co/MXYdrSIJKo
— Amber Athey (@amber_athey) November 13, 2018
It seems strange to take a selfie with a dead child's blood spattered all over you. Weird flex but ok. https://t.co/0AghuJX1eh
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) November 13, 2018
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