Daniel Michelson, a student at medical school in Minnesota decided 18 months ago that it would be a great idea to spray paint the George Floyd mural.
Michelson “Xed” out Floyd’s mouth and eyes. He didn’t do any damage and it was not clear why. However, Floyd got caught right in his flip-flops. Someone in the “George Floyd Square” security force said she “held back” people who wanted to issue some restorative justice, AKA: to beat Michelson to a pulp. Michelson, who smiled and turned to the camera for the camera, was instantly identified. Smart. As quickly as it took to mark X on Floyd’s mouth, Michelson was out of medical school. His classmates wanted to stake his head. There was nothing more awful than being a 2020 student. It is notTwitter is the place to make a full-floral virtue statement. Londyn Robinson was a Michelson classmate.
The George Floyd memorial was defaced by a member of my school of medicine at the University of Minnesota
We mean in our class when we refer to having work to do. We mean med students are JUST as harmful & racist as the rest of medicine. https://t.co/LJ46TH98XC
— Londyn Robinson, MD (@londyloo) August 20, 2020
The medical school’s dean penned a letter of contrition. It included most of the bended knee bullet points, including “openly condemning the death of George Floyd.” That wasn’t enough for Robinson. She wanted expulsion and she was horrified that the dean failed to include sufficient contrition and “support for Black and brown classmates”.
Update: The Dean has sent the following letter. This is very confusing. He has been suspended. This is our ONLY communication with the U of M Leadership. We are asking for expulsion.
The article fails to mention how Med students harmed Mpls. Doesn’t mention anything about supoort for Black and brown classmates. pic.twitter.com/6lye2EH6xO
— Londyn Robinson, MD (@londyloo) August 20, 2020
Spray paint on a mural of Floyd you’re out of med school and marked for life. Michelson’s college got wind of his antics and quickly notified everyone at his former university. You can read the following:
“My heart ached as I read about another act of violence and hatred toward the Black community… This vandalism, along with any instance of racism or discrimination, has no place in our community.”
Michelson was stupid. I know I don’t want a doctor stabbing me with anything if he (or she) has demonstrated such poor judgment, but what he did wasn’t a medical ethics breach, nor did he purposely injure a patient. However, his medical career was destroyed without any connection to medical ethics.
Now, fast forward to March 20,22. Kychelle Del Rosario, fourth year medical student at Wake Forest, is Kychelle. Her activism includes transgender rights. She was quite open about her decision to delete all of her social media accounts.
A crime was committed sometime between March 29th, 2022 and March 29, 2022. Not only did she stab a patient because of something the patient said, she committed a breach of the most sacred canon of the medical field which is “Do no harm”.
Del Rosario wears an identification nametag, which identifies her as a She/Her. The patient read the nametag and pronounced her She/Her pronoun. Del Rosario says that patient:
“Loudly laugh[ed] to the staff ‘She/Her? It is, of course! Are there any other pronouns? It?’
How did Del Rosario respond? She didn’t ignore the comment. She didn’t ask someone else to draw blood. She decided to stabbing the patient. Apparently a joke is enough for a (potential) doctor to commit a battery and commit an ethical breach because she didn’t like the patient’s joke. Not only did she commit a battery and breach her ethical duty to “do no harm” – she decided to brag about. She was proud of her crime in a tweet that she later deleted.
Wake Forest is investigating the situation. There wasn’t a lengthy open letter about how horrified the dean was. No vow to “do better.” There was no “We’re seeking restorative justice for patients,” or the seeking of a “healing moment.” Just a tweet announcing that the school was “taking measures to address this with the student.”
Fortunately, Del Rosario didn’t spray-paint an “X” on a George Floyd mural. This would have been a terrible idea. It was very bad.
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