A new low

I am absolutely appalled by the new low Donald Trump achieved in his response to the post from Dr. Jacob Keeperman, medical director and ICU physician at the Renown Medical Center’s alternate care site in Reno, Nev.

The picture shows Keeperman and in the background are empty hospital beds covered in plastic, standing in a vacant parking lot. Keeperman explained the photo was taken on Nov. 12, the day the site opened, so as not to violate HIPPA laws or show any patients. Keeperman said the photo was posted because he just wanted to recognize and thank his staff.

My father was a doctor, a general surgeon; I saw firsthand what a conscientious and compassionate physician he was, so Keeperman’s post really resonated with me. But what does Trump do? He re-tweets the post stating that it’s a “hoax” just like the “fake election results in Nevada.” Trump trashes a doctor who poignantly recalled holding a patient’s hand who’s taking his last dying breath, then the anguish of having to inform the family the patient wouldn’t be coming home.

In conclusion I’ll quote attorney Joseph Welch during the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings in 1954 when Welch confronted the junior senator from Wisconsin (Joe McCarthy) with these words:

“You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”

Dan Keenan

Spokane