Taylor Nichols: Jewish ER Physician on Treating Seriously Ill Patient with Multiple Nazi Tattoos

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Dec52020

Taylor Nichols, M.D., a young Jewish doctor, was confronted with an ethical dilemma in the Northern California emergency room where he works: He was called upon to treat a seriously ill patient with multiple tattooed swastikas and other hate symbols on his body. The man implored Dr. Nichols, “Don’t let me die, doc.” A heartwarming and inspiring interview — by Jewish CNN anchor John Berman — about how the physician responded is linked below.

Quote: “When we go into this job, we all know we’re going to do our best by everyone. We’re going to provide the best care to anyone who comes through our doors. It’s sort of a mantra of emergency medicine — anyone, anything, anytime. That’s what we’re here for, and we’ll continue to do that no matter what.”

Sources: cnn.com

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“In the last weeks, our nation has seen a series of anti-Semitic attacks targeting and terrorizing American Jews. We have seen a brick thrown through window of a Jewish-owned business in Manhattan; a swastika carved into the door of a synagogue in Salt Lake City; families threatened outside a restaurant in Los Angeles; and museums in Florida and Alaska, dedicated to celebrating Jewish life and culture and remembering the Holocaust, vandalized with anti-Jewish messages. These attacks are despicable, unconscionable, un-American, and they must stop.”

— President Joe Biden

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“I’ve served as a congregational rabbi for a decade or so. My leadership has coincided with an ominous rise in antisemitic incidents from vile online threats to the killing of 11 Jews at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018. During that time, I’ve listened to hundreds of conversations detailing real life encounters of antisemitism. I’ve heard diverse opinions and a wide range of experiences about its nature in the present day — from a swastika drawn in the bathroom of a school to microaggressions in the workplace and everything in between. But nearly every conversation I hear about antisemitism has one, surprising thing in common: in every instance where an antisemitic act has been committed, our culture — and conversations surrounding these hateful acts — tend to diminish or even deny antisemitism.”

— Rabbi Diana Fersko | MSN.com

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“Trump’s dinner with the musician Ye, who’s made a number of antisemitic remarks, and a notorious Holocaust-denying internet streamer [Nick Fuentes] is just the latest example of antisemitism’s increasing visibility in electoral politics… Trump is not the first Republican candidate or official to spend time with [Fuentes] and later claim not to know about his very outspoken, antisemitic beliefs.”

— Reporter Lisa Hagen | NPR.org

Taylor Nichols: Jewish ER Physician on Treating Seriously Ill Patient with Multiple Nazi Tattoos

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