Columbus statue swiped from apartment building in name of cancel culture

NY Post ^ | 9/13/2020 | Miranda Devine

[simpson96]

John Cartafalsa, 91, was relieved to get home to the Upper West Side after spending five months of the pandemic stranded in Florida.

But as he entered his apartment lobby, his eyes were drawn to a disturbing sight. Tucked at the feet of a neighbor waiting for the elevator was Cartafalsa’s precious Christopher Columbus statue, a gift from a Sicilian-born relative to honor his law school graduation in 1957.

For 30 years the 15-inch bronze has held pride of place in an alcove in the lobby of Cartafalsa’s Riverside Drive co-op.

There it remained, unmolested, until 5:55 pm June 29 when, in a stroke of fateful timing, Cartafalsa came across his 13th floor neighbor, Mount Sinai doctor Sean Morrison, trying to swipe it.

“That’s mine!” said a distressed Cartafalsa, shuffling forward on his walker. (snip) the conversation ended when another neighbor told Cartafalsa she would restore his statue to its niche.

However, Morrison didn’t let go of his obsession.

At 7:23 the next morning, CCTV footage shows the palliative care specialist, hospital ID slung around his neck, walking through the lobby, into the alcove, where he tucks the statue under his arm, and walks briskly out onto the street.(snip)

Cartafalsa was devastated when he discovered the family heirloom missing two days later. He called police and soon the story spread through the building.

Cartafalsa now is in hospital with gall bladder problems, unable to speak.

But his son, attorney John Cartafalsa Jr., 62, says he was told by the co-op board the statue was “destroyed.”

“This guy’s attitude is despicable,” he says. “Morrison claims he told my father the statue was objectionable, but my father had no discussion with him at all other than to tell him the statue was his and not to take it.[con't. below]

[simpson96]

(Dr Sean Morrison, right, with the statue at his feet the moment his neighbor John Cartafalsa, 91, arrives home from Florida)

...“In my father’s eyes the statue is priceless. It has a lot of family and emotional meaning.”

It took six weeks, and only after detectives retrieved the CCTV footage from the building lobby, for Morrison to acknowledge what he had done, in a letter dated Aug. 8, on the letterhead of Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine.

Morrison’s attitude is all the more disturbing when you consider that he is a luminary of the palliative care industry, the Ellen and Howard Katz Chair of Mount Sinai’s Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine.

He and his wife, Dr Diane Meier, 68, also a Mount Sinai specialist, each have received grants from billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Institute, which stands accused by pro-life group LifeTree, of promoting palliative care as “euthanasia by stealth,” by providing “comfort” instead of treatment to very ill or elderly patients.Enlarge ImageChristopher Columbus statue

Morrison has authored a paper citing “strong fiscal incentives” for hospitals to expand palliative care, as a solution to the burden of an aging population.

[simpson96]

[BenLurkin]

Does that mean he is in favor of killing off the old people rather than spend money to treat them?

[SunkenCiv]

Nice picture. And we all now know where he lives, and where he works.

[Leaning Right]

ANY crime is acceptable to the Left as long as it is Politically Correct. Steal a MAGA hat from a kid, steal a statue from an old man, burn a building, shoot a police officer - all are now perfectly acceptable.

I don’t see how this thinking can be reversed. Bad times are ahead.

[Skywise]

The doctor should be fired immediately and evicted from the co-op.

He’s a thief - has admitted to being a thief and a vandal. That co-op is NOT safe while he resides there nor are any patients under his care.

[Uncle Sham]

This animal needs to be cancelled. It has come to that.

[libertylover]

The doctor should be fired immediately and evicted from the co-op

You're absolutely right and I expect that to happen ... never.

[Vision]

Guy should be fired and his behavior should be an issue for practicing medicine.

[Fiji Hill]

Guy should be fired and his behavior should be an issue for practicing medicine.

Because he committed an act of theft and vandalism, could his medical license revoked on ethics grounds?

[kaktuskid]

I suppose Mr Cartalfasa has some Sicilian “friends” who may pay the good doctor a visit

[9YearLurker]

Taking a look at his recent publications, it does appear as if the economics of palliative care is precisely his specialty!

- Drivers of care costs and quality in the last 3 months of life among older people receiving palliative care: A multinational mortality follow-back survey across England, Ireland and the United States
- Economics of palliative care for cancer: Interpreting current evidence, mapping future priorities for research
- Living in the Community With Dementia: Who Receives Paid Care?
- Economic Analysis of Hospital Palliative Care: Investigating Heterogeneity by Noncancer Diagnoses
Homebound Status and the Critical Role of Caregiving Support
- Beyond functional support: The range of health-related tasks performed in the home by paid caregivers in New York
- The national palliative care research center: Ten years of promoting and developing research in palliative care
- Association between the availability of hospital-based palliative care and treatment intensity for critically Ill patients
- Hospice Care for Patients With Dementia in the United States: A Longitudinal Cohort Study
- Economics of palliative care for hospitalized adults with serious illness: A meta-analysis

https://www.mountsinai.org/profiles/rolfe-sean-morrison

[DesertRhino]

There was allegedly a time in New York when this “doctor” would get a visit form some people for being disrespectful to an elderly man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDheXEIxWas

Tony woulda fixed this.

[Midwesterner53]

Sue him for everything you can get. He likely attributed to your dad’s decline in health. I would sue him out on the street.

[Albion Wilde]

A doctor? One who took the oath, “First, do no harm.”?