‘Code Blue!’ UC Davis med students call Trump a ‘medical emergency’

Sacramento Bee ^ | December 1, 2016 | Claudia Buck

[artichokegrower]

Calling it a “code blue” medical emergency, more than 100 UC Davis medical students held a rally on the Sacramento campus Thursday night to speak out about their fears for health care under incoming president Donald Trump.

Some of those fears were personal, such as African American and Muslim medical students who described feeling intimidated and threatened since the election. Others were concerned about the potential harm to patients of Trump’s call to replace and repeal the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as “Obamacare.”

[Nifster]

Rent a mobs a cheap in California. Plus these idiots are UW at Madison material....maybe they can write excuses for striking teachers

[TigerLikesRooster]

Let us declare UC Davis as a sanctuary university. All liberal loons, snow flakes, and illegal immigrants can go there and stay. Keep the rest of us from daily harassment by these losers. We may definitely need a bubble city which can give them “a safe space.” Come to think of it, maybe Trump can build one for them, and sell them for profit. They would think it is an utopia, while we view it as a sewage tank. It is a win-win solution.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

If these students aren’t careful, they’re going to create an image of doctors as arrogant, self-centered jerks who think that their opinions are all that counts . . . .

[arkfreepdom]

Geez. Most docs who are actually out practicing and no matter what race voted Trump.

[tflabo]

Eff them all. Lieberal lunatics just about hopeless.

[tflabo]

Obama won the presidency but never won our respect.

[\/\/ayne]

I remember way back before it passed when a group of doctors protested against ObamaCare™; many of them wore their white doctor coats. The image of a speaker and audience of doctors protesting was striking.

It took him a while but President Obama rushed to have a press conference of doctors promoting ObamaCare™.

Problem 1: He could not get enough doctors to fill up the seats. So he got whoever he could. Many liberals were happy to be in the audience.

Problem 2: Not enough doctor coats to counter the striking image of protesting doctors. An assistant handed out doctor coats to the started non-doctor attendees.

[justlurking]

Rhetorical question: are these actual medical students?

Or are all these "medical students" actually "pre-med", and haven't yet been accepted to a medical school?

And, for the doctors out there: what is the reputation of the UC Davis medical school? Do they have high admission standards?

[Pearls Before Swine]

I remember when doctors were smart.

That must be before Howard Dean and Jill Stein went political.

[cymbeline]

I think a poster identified it before: PTSD, Post Trump Stress Syndrome.

[IrishBrigade]

Oops, data, not dara.

I thought you meant to say ‘dura’...would make perfect sense, given the context...

[ridesthemiles]

Students at UC Davis better look closer to home for a group pf legislature members who are passing legislation that will sabotage those students.

UC Davis is an agricultural school-—and California is voting to eliminate COW FARTS-—which I think can only be done by eliminating cows in California.

So—those Veterinarian students won’t have any California customers when they might graduate......

[Iron Munro]

This does not compute. Too logical.

Not nuanced enough for a 'progressive'.

[Iron Munro]

I remember way back before it passed when a group of doctors protested against ObamaCare™; many of them wore their white doctor coats. The image of a speaker and audience of doctors protesting was striking.

Who wouldn't trust a Doctor in a white lab coat?

[\/\/ayne]

I know; I listen to old radio plays! My point was how the White House reacted, though.

[Iron Munro]

I know; I listen to old radio plays! My point was how the White House reacted, though.

I got it but couldn't resist posting those old ads.

And here's why:

Think about the Obama White House Obamacare Dr. drama...

Remember the backstory about how the White House had to send someone out on an emergency mission to round up the white coats for the doctors to give the Obamacare endorsements the visual gravitas of doctors in lab coats?

The intent was basically the same as Madison Avenue advertising agencies using doctors in lab coats to push cigarettes or any other product.

Like Obama, they were trying to sell a product with exaggerated claims.

But unlike Obama they were doing the job they were paid to do for the people they represented.

Obama was just Shucking and Jiving to pass off a pig in a poke and stick it to the people he was supposed to represent..