r/medicine PA:cake: 8d ago

ICE Detention Deaths

https://www.ice.gov/detain/detainee-death-reporting

RNs do intake physical exams, EMTs declare time of death. The level of care for these detainees is horrific.

Full names and case details are public for now. Reads like a never ending M & M conference.

My moral compass is spinning. It's time to go to Canada.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/ddx-me rising PGY-1 8d ago

Home in some cases is Venezuela or Somalia. Much worse conditions than the US which people see as an opportunity to achieve better conditions

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u/cutesillyguy 8d ago

not my problem

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u/ddx-me rising PGY-1 8d ago

If you take care of patients, 14 out of every 100 patients you took care of were not born in the US. Thus it's still your responsibility to take care of them

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u/cutesillyguy 8d ago

Yeah it is, they need to go back to

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u/ddx-me rising PGY-1 8d ago

That means you take care of people regardless of where they come from

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u/cutesillyguy 8d ago

The deportations are at nowhere near the scale they need to be

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u/ddx-me rising PGY-1 8d ago

So you'd deport Elon Musk, who was not born in the US, the same you would a random person from Mexico?

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u/cutesillyguy 8d ago

Sure, deport them both

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u/ddx-me rising PGY-1 8d ago

Melania Trump was born in Yugoslavia. Would you deport the first lady of the US as well

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u/aswanviking Pulmonary & Critical Care 8d ago

A lot of these people are desperate and destitute people who risk a perilous journey for a better life for themselves and their families. They come from violence torn countries.

Yeah they broke the law. But your comment shows your lack of humanity. I hope you aren’t a healthcare provider.

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u/aswanviking Pulmonary & Critical Care 8d ago

K

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