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Last week, Jordan Warnsholz, a physician assistant in Manistee, published a hyper-partisan, willfully misleading op-ed criticizing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for using executive powers, allowed under law, to keep Michiganders safe during the pandemic. (1/12) https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2020/09/07/gretchen-whitmer-lawsuit-michigan-lockdown-illegal-column/3453141001/
I was proud to refute this misguided criticism with a letter to @USATODAY. Read full letter here or follow along with me below. 
(2/12)
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/usa-today-us-edition/20200917/281633897661299
(2/12)https://www.pressreader.com/usa/usa-today-us-edition/20200917/281633897661299
Like Trump, Warnsholz tries to blame Whitmer’s stay-at-home orders for patients’ suffering. But the blame belongs to the Trump Administration, which failed to implement a national strategy... (3/12)
...and as we heard recently in taped interviews, warn Americans about the severity of this coronavirus. (4/12) https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/09/trump-coronavirus-deadly-downplayed-risk-410796
Warnsholz ignores the fact that hospital systems had plans in place precisely to ensure patients with chronic conditions didn’t fall through the cracks. If any failed, that’s the fault of the health care system, not the government. (5/12)
(The @CDCgov even offered a Comprehensive Hospital Preparedness Checklist). (6/12) https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/hcp-hospital-checklist.html
Warnsholz went so far as to accuse Whitmer of “a shocking ignorance of how medicine works,” but in sharing his patients’ stories, outed himself — a physician assistant — as the one ignorant of how medicine works. (7/12)
His patients’ examples are ones of medical negligence, not gubernatorial overreach.
One doesn’t require a medical degree to understand that treating diabetes is an “essential service” and wasn’t restricted by Whitmer’s measures. (8/12)
One doesn’t require a medical degree to understand that treating diabetes is an “essential service” and wasn’t restricted by Whitmer’s measures. (8/12)
Let’s be clear: Warnsholz’s patient’s death represents a failure of the medical community. (9/12)
As a family physician, my practice has remained open since the onset of the pandemic. Keeping people with chronic medical and psychiatric conditions stable and out of the hospital limited their exposure and preserved resources for #COVID19 patients. (10/12)
There was NO ambiguity that it was an essential service. At least, there shouldn’t have been. (11/12)
If I were Warnsholz, or the physician overseeing him, I’d be less concerned about suing @GovWhitmer and more concerned about patients suing me.
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