Another Nurse’s Career Ends After He Vows Not to Care for MAGA Patients

While nurses don’t take that oath, they do take the Florence Nightingale Pledge and must abide the American Nurses Association’s Code of Ethics.

“Health is a universal right and the need for it transcends all individual differences,” the first provision says:

The worth of a person is not affected by life choices or circumstances, illness, ability, socioeconomic status, functional status, or proximity to death. Nursing care is shaped by unique patient preferences, needs, values, and choices. Respect is extended to all who require and receive nursing care in the promotion of health, prevention of illness and injury, restoration of health, alleviation of pain and suffering, or provision of supportive care.

Martindale, apparently, doesn’t believe this applies to him or the people under his care … if they vote the wrong way.

Yesterday, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced that Martindale’s days as a nurse in Florida are over, at least for now.

“Effective today, Erik Martindale is no longer a registered nurse in Florida,” he wrote on X:

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.

But state authorities did not have to terminate Martindale’s license. Rather, he apparently knew what he said was the end of his career. He voluntarily surrendered it, the state nurses’ registry says.

News reports did not identify his employer.

It isn’t clear whether Martindale can ever work again as a nurse. Hospitals would take on a major medical malpractice problem if they hired him and he permitted or helped a “MAGA” patient to die.

Leavitt Attack

Martindale is at least the third nurse to post something insane on social media, then pay the price.

As The New American reported on Wednesday, Florida revoked the license of Lexie Lawler. A labor and delivery nurse, Lawler took to social media to wish Leavitt, who is pregnant and due in July, permanent injury during childbirth.

“As a labor and delivery nurse, it gives me great joy to wish Karoline Leavitt a fourth-degree tear,” she fumed:

I hope that you f***ing rip from bow to stern and never s**t normally again, you c***.

A fourth-degree vaginal tear is the worst that can befall a new mother, the Mayo Clinic says. One of the main difficulties can be permanent fecal incontinence.

The video ended Lawler’s career at Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital.

Anti-ICE Nurse in Virginia

Before Lawler, there was a nurse at Virginia Commonwealth University’s health subsidiary, VCU Health.

Malinda Cook’s video on social media, remarkably, is worse than the other two. She importuned medical professionals to attempt to murder Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

“I thought of something good … sabotage tactic, or at least a scare tactic,” she began:

All the medical providers, grab some syringes with needles on the end, have them full of saline, or succinylcholine, you know, whatever, whatever. That will probably be a deterrent. Be safe.

The drug that Cook suggested paralyzes respiratory muscles and stops breathing to ease intubation during surgery when a patient goes on a respirator. It can have dangerous side effects, particularly with other drugs, the Mayo Clinic says. Thus, injecting the drug without supervision or knowledge about how it works could kill a person.

Other suggestions were mixing poison oak or ivy with water and spraying it in ICE agents’ faces, or, for single women, meeting agents on a dating website, going out for a date, then poisoning their drinks with a laxative.

Normal Nurse Protests

More than one sane individual called out Cook for encouraging murder or attempted murder.

Physician Kelly Victory warned on X that Cook had solicited “attempted murder.”

“To be clear: Injecting someone with succinylcholine — a ‘temporary paralysis drug’, would be attempted murder,” she wrote:

This is a paralytic drug that prevents an individual from breathing. Unless artificial respiration is provided, that individual will die. This woman — a healthcare worker — is encouraging people to attempt murder.  

Annemarie Wiley, a certified registered nurse anesthetist, said much the same thing. She told health professionals that their job is helping everyone.

“To my fellow health care professionals: You cannot wish death upon people and then post it to the internet,” she began, before showing Cook urging her colleagues to paralyze and possibly murder ICE agents.

“So this provider was encouraging the use of a medication called succinylcholine, and succinylcholine is an anesthesia drug that we use to cause paralysis in our patients when needed,” Wiley said:

So essentially, she is asking for this person to be suffocated alive because you would not be able to breathe, you would not be able to move, you wouldn’t even be able to blink. So you would suffocate alive.

This is not acceptable behavior.

As medical professionals, our job is to take care of everyone and anyone, regardless of their race, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, political affiliation, whatever it is.

So please stop taking videos of yourselves in your scrubs wishing harm upon people. All you are doing is feeding hysteria and causing further mistrust in the medical system. Our job is to help people heal, not to spread hate.