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New: Dr. James Phillips, the ER physician who publicly criticized @realDonaldTrump's decision to go on a rideabout to greet supporters while hospitalized with COVID-19, has been removed from Walter Reed Medical Center’s schedule starting in January.
Dr. Phillips is chief of disaster medicine at George Washington University & works as an attending physician at Walter Reed on a contract basis. On October 4, after @realdonaldtrump rode in his motorcade around the hospital, @DrPhillipsMD tweeted, “Every single person... “ (2/x)
“...in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary Presidential “drive-by” just now has to be quarantined for 14 days. They might get sick. They may die. For political theater. Commanded by Trump to put their lives at risk for theater. This is insanity.” (3/x)
Walter Reed officials deny they made the decision to remove him, telling @CBSNews that the hospital “provides requirements for contract positions. Schedules are determined by the contractor. There was no decision made by anyone at WRNMMC to remove Dr. Phillips from the schedule.”
In other words, Phillips’ contractor, GW Medical Faculty Associates, may have removed him from the schedule in order to remain in good standing with Walter Reed Medical Center.
The move comes 2 months after @DrPhillipsMD sent his tweet and 1 month after the Commander in Chief was defeated, while Maryland is in the midst of near-record COVID-19 hospitalizations — a time when a military hospital might have the most use for a disaster medicine specialist.
