Posted on 05/17/2007 4:42:40 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
When Your Doctor is a Muslim: Medical Terrorism Comes to America
By Debbie Schlussel
www.debbieschlussel.com
May 17, 2007
Sometimes--so many times--diversity is not what it's cracked up to be.
Just ask Joseph Applebaum. Well, you could ask him. But you won't get an answer. He's dead. And he's dead because he was a Jew, and his doctor is a Muslim and grad of "Ayman Al-Zawahiri" Medical School.
But Applebaum wasn't denied treatment for being a Jew in Egypt. Or elsewhere in the Muslim world. It happened right here on U.S. soil. In Chicago.
As Muslim doctors continue to flood into the country under lax immigration laws, hospitals around the country have acquired their fair share of them. Many hospitals in the Detroit area are now dominated by Muslim doctors and have been for some time.
But even in hospitals where they do not predominate, Muslim doctors are starting to demonstrate behavior toward non-Muslim patients that is beyond alarming.
On December 1, 2003, Joe Applebaum was admitted to Rush North Shore Medical Center, a major hospital in Chicago. He was stricken with an acute (or distended) abdomen--a swelling of the stomach that is easily diagnosed and treated. But it was never treated by anyone at the hospital. For 12 hours, Joe Applebaum was left alone--left to die, which he did the next day.
A Jewish man, he was identified as a Jew on the front page of his medical chart. The chief resident doctor assigned to treat Mr. Applebaum, Osama Ahmed Ibrahim, MD, sure noticed the religious notation on Applebaum's chart. And it appears that this is why he never once checked or examined this emergency patient, Mr. Applebaum, and left him to die. When another doctor at the hospital finally examined Mr. Applebaum--not his assigned doctor, Dr. Ibrahim, he told Applebaum's son, Michael, to say good-bye to his father because he was about to die.
Dr. Ibrahim, is a Muslim from Birmingham, England--a hotbed of Islamic radicalism and terror planning. It is breeding ground for anti-Semitic hate. He is a graduate of Ain Shams University Medical School in Egypt. This extremist school is also the alma mater of Al-Qaeda mastermind and number two, Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri. Zawahiri's father--a Muslim Brotherhood enthusiast--also taught at the University.
Other Ain Shams grads and faculty members include:
* late HAMAS leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin; * Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Mahdi Akef;
* LAX terrorist shooter Hesham Mohamed Hedayet;
* Extremist Canadian Imam, Aly Hindy; and
* Co-leader of Yemen's extremist Al-Islah Party, Abdul Majeed Al-Zindani.
Why did Dr. Ibrahim neglect a patient who came in with an easily treatable condition and leave him to die, 12 hours later? It appears it can only be because he did not want to treat a Jewish patient and let him live. There can be no other reason.
Mr. Applebaum's son, Michael, is a medical doctor and an attorney. While he was waiting for Dr. Ibrahim to see his father, he called Dr. Ibrahim and alerted him to the growingly severe condition his father was in and that his father was suffering from an acute abdomen. Dr. Ibrahim claimed he examined Mr. Applebaum. But that was a lie. He'd never seen him.
And he essentially murdered him by denying treatment. It's a case of extreme negligence and medical malpractice for the apparent purpose of anti-Semitic murder.
Joseph Applebaum's son Michael is now suing Dr. Ibrahim, the hospital--Rush North Shore Medical Center, and others involved in his father's murder. The case is filed in Illinois, and he is looking for a good attorney to pursue the case he has filed. If you are interested or can help, please contact him at the website he set up to document this ongoing tragedy.
This isn't the only case where a Muslim doctor deliberately let his Jewish patient die, it is just the first that we know of. And it likely won't be the last.
Muslim doctors--especially those from foreign medical schools deep in the world of anti-Semitic, anti-American hate; but many from here, too--have backgrounds that are incompatible with the basic level of care that is required and expected in America. Sadly, no-one is vetting them out of our healthcare system. And no-one will.
But we know that there are many doctors who've been at the forefront of taking lives--not saving them--in the name of the "Religion of Peace":
* Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri--Al-Qaeda mastermind and number two man, reportedly a surgeon and/or psychiatrist; * Dr. Mohammad Rabi Al-Zawahiri--Ayman's father and a Muslim Brotherhood enthusiast, pharmacologist and professor at Ain Shams Medical School;
* Dr. "Abu Hafiza"--Al-Qaeda master planner who was the brains and commander of the Moroccan cell that provided logistics for the 9/11 attacks, and he recruited Qaeda insurgents for battles in Fallujah, Moroccan psychiatrist;
* Dr. Abdel Aziz Al-Rantisi--Late HAMAS leader, pediatrician;
* Dr. Mahmoud Al-Zahar--HAMAS co-founder and leader, surgeon and lecturer at the Islamic University in Gaza;
* Dr. Fathi Abd Al-Aziz Shiqaqi--Late founder of Islamic Jihad and active in Fatah, physician.
And there are other issues, such as infectious disease. We are no seeing cases in Britain in which some Muslim doctors refuse to wash their hands with alcohol-based disinfectant, per the Muslim prohibition on alcohol consumption.
In New Jersey, Dr. Ahmed Rashed, a Muslim Arab resident, severed and stole the hand of a cadaver as a gift for a stripper. Such little respect for life from a religion now very much participating in a profession that takes an oath to do no harm and to preserve patient's lives. Not only did he get a slap on the hand--no jail time and, likely, no criminal record--but he currently has a job practicing medicine at Maimonides Medical Center in New York. The real Maimonides--a legendary, brilliant Jewish doctor, rabbi, and religious scholar--is turning over in his grave.
Perhaps, Dr. Applebaum's suit against Rush North Shore Medical Center will make hospitals think twice before they hire Muslim doctors inclined to practice Medical terrorism against their patients. Today, the victim is a Jew, solely because he is Jewish. But tomorrow, it will be a Christian, solely because he/she is a Christian. Or some other non-Muslim victim, solely because he/she is a non-Muslim victim.
Can we afford to have doctors in America whose allegiance to their patients is far less than their allegiance to an extreme observance of a religion of hate? If they cannot and will not tender care, they should not be licensed to practice medicine in the United States.
Like I said, Maimonides is turning over in his grave. Joseph Applebaum, *Zichrono LiVrachah--Blessed Be His Memory.
Um, I don’t think they do.
In fact, I think many of them get a free ride.
Remember, the U.S. is “Santa” to these people.
If I or a family member was ever admitted to a hospital and “assigned” a Muslim doctor, I would scream bloody hell and insist on another doctor not affiliated with that cult of death.
Bottom Line: "Emergency Rooms" are for "emergencies" but are now often used as walk-in clinics.
This does not mean that foreign physicians, taken as a group, function as well on average in the American medical system as American educated and trained physicans, taken as a group. There also tend to be more language and cultural differences between foreign physicians and American patients than between American-educated physicians and American patients. These sometimes have a negative impact on the physician-patient relationship and on the quality of care - not even considering the small possibility that the foreign physician might be a Muslim coming from a jihadist ideological background.
I know plenty of doctors from Muslim countries. The vast majority of them are here in the US because they wanted to get away from the craphole country they came from. I don’t know any that are practicing Muslims, athough they were born into nominally Muslim families and have Muslim names. Their wives wear Western clothes and they drink alcohol and act like everyone else here. They socialize with Jewish physicians.
As far as this story goes, it looks like there are a lot more Jewish doctors than Muslim doctors named as defendants. The story goes off course very quickly by claiming that “acute abdomen” is an easily diagnosed and treated condition.
Physicians treat people every day with whom they have vast differences in political, religious, and personal opinion. I seriously doubt the truth of this story, although it may be the claim of the plaintiff.
LONG LIVE THE MINUTEMEN! Locked and loaded may be the wave of the future.
Oh, I know exactly what I’m talking about, Wendy. Apparently, though, you are clueless when it comes to this topic.
Here’s a little challenge for you: Choose a koranimal next time you need major surgery, okay? Go on, I dare you.
I don’t think you would get much sympathy from the hospital or the non-muslim physicians.
There’s not much choice in the ER these days..
My pulmonary doctor was a Muslim and he was wonderful. He called me the day after I first went to see him because he was worried about the condition I was in. He was very compassionate and he knew I was a Christian. I loved him.
what a cynic. Maybe the man lives in another city? Maybe he was on vacation? who knows?
When you go to Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, a teaching hospital, most of the doctors you see are foreign. I was always treated well there so I’m not complaining, but there are certainly more foreign doctors around there than white American ones.
Oops, I read it again and found his son WAS there. Sorry.
I think a doc-in-the-box is faster service.
The funny thing is that I didn't start out at the ER. Actually, I had something in my eye (or thought I did) that I hadn't been able to wash out for 3 days, and my co-workers got sick of seeing my blood red eye. So, they sent me to one of those "minute clinic" places, and while I was being "checked in," with my temp and blood pressure being taken, the tech looked at my bp, checked it again, and then got up and hurried out to get the nurse practicioner. The NP came in and told me that I needed to get to an ER right now, and they wanted to send me in an ambulance. I told them that I felt fine and would just drive myself, and the NP said that I could have a stroke or heart attack at any moment, and didn't reccomend it. She made me sign an AMA form, and they called the ER and notified them that I would be right over. They never did look at my eye, and refused to do it. So, I was somewhat spooked about my condition, but when I got to the ER, even though they had all the info, they seemed pretty casual about it, so I just relaxed and waited about 45 minutes before they called my name in the waiting room, and then I waited about 3 hours before the Dr came in to see me (though a nurse did get my temp and bp immediately.)
Mark
It serves a population ranging from bankers and professional athletes to heroin addicts and alcoholics on welfare, as well as a prison population (Northern State) and everyone in between. The people in the area come from all over the world, and the hospital also treats patients brought in from Newark - Liberty airport, a huge port of entry. It’s also a teaching hospital at an accredited university.
Newark might suck. Okay, it does suck. I should know, I worked there, but if you ever need a good doctor, you’d do well with one who did his rotations there.
Nonsense.
Before I believe this to be true I must have more evidence. The author offers nothing substantive, no statements, no witnesses, nothing. She does offer up the fact that the doctor in question graduated from a university in Egypt that also graduated some radicals. This proves nothing. George Bush and John Kerry both graduated from the same school and are most unlike one another.
I am not buying Debbie Schlussel's allegations in this particular case, pending review of more factual details.
That's largely because US government legislation and policy has made the medical profession increasingly unattractive to the pool of the best and brightest young Americans who, just a generation ago, were more likely to pursue a medical career. No longer do you see anywhere near as many physician parents encouraging their sons and daughters to follow in their footsteps, for instance.
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