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     When A Medical Newsletter Goes “Woke”

By Richard Moss MD

The “woke” is a uniquely pestilential force in the nation and surely lacking in good taste, but one generally does not expect them to appear in what is ostensibly an ENT (Ear Nose and Throat) Newsletter.  Alas, Leftism is religion for the godless, and so they manifest in the most bizarre settings, serving their fundamentalist creed like any believer.  I took note of some mischief in my corner of the universe and responded in writing. 

To the Editor: “In multiple issues over the last couple years, and, particularly, post-George Floyd, the editorial staff at ENT Today decided that an ENT publication should, along with providing ENT information, also promote and advocate for “woke” leftist ideology.1,2,3,4,5,6,7 We are already bombarded by this every day and everywhere, in our schools, colleges, the media, Hollywood, professional sports, corporate America, Big Tech, Wall Street, the Democratic Party, and to a lesser extent, even the GOP. It only stands to reason that our cultural betters at ENT Today would feel compelled to educate us on “weakness” as well.

I would ask the enlightened leftist jokesters at ENT Today if there is no bastion where we can be free of woke, race-baiting politics, the demonization of America, the racialization & balkanization of the country, the destructive reduction of the nation from a land of free individuals, possessed of God-given inalienable rights, to a nation of warring “identity groups” or tribes based on race, sex, ethnicity, and sexual orientation? Is it possible for you to spare us the racial taunts, insults, diatribes, and accusations? Must you lecture us on “systemic racism”, “white privilege,” and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” in an ENT Journal? Is there not enough of that already, across the fruited plain? Does the notion of a color-blind meritocracy not ring a bell somewhere in the misty caverns of your woke corpus callosum? Do the words of a famous black preacher, who once spoke of a nation where Americans will “not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content on their character,” no longer measure up? 

Why not stick to your mission of sharing ENT information, which heretofore you performed superbly, and dispense with the cult-Marxism?

You may enjoy virtue-signaling, but you do not help blacks and other minorities by continually picking at the scabs of our racial history. Slavery was universal and present throughout time. It exists today, including in Africa and elsewhere. This may surprise you, but it was not an invention of the United States. Only one nation fought a war to end it – this one. Talk up our country instead of denigrating it. Many of us do not want to hear another lecture on race, the legacy of slavery, and white supremacy, and particularly in an ENT publication. 

Minorities do quite well in “racist” America. Millions of third-world minorities come to “racist” America every year. To be able to live in America is a dream for “people of color” around the world; to have that privilege is to have won life’s lottery. Many risk life and limb to come to “racist” America. It is not America’s fault if there are no identical outcomes for all racial and other identity groups. That’s called “life.” Even within a given family, same genes, same upbringing, there are often gaping disparities, let alone in a nation of 350 million from every walk of life, culture, and nation on earth. Many Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Gays, Muslims, Women, and so on, are very successful, very wealthy, very influential in “racist” America. Many minorities living here, including those from Cambodia, Korea, Pakistan, Bolivia, Iran, Taiwan, India, the Philippines, and many others, enjoy higher per-capita income in “racist” America than whites. We have had, in case you missed it, a black President and now a black Vice President.

How does that happen in a “systemically racist” country?

The answer is we are not systemically racist.

The existence of disparities between races does not mean “systemic racism,” but other factors, such as culture, social dysfunction (high rates of out of wedlock childbirth, educational failure, criminality, incarceration, all particularly high amongst blacks), bad choices, group differences, self-selection, and preference. We have equality of opportunity and treatment before the law. Not equal outcomes. Equal outcomes or “equity” has a name. It’s called Communism. North Korea may be the model you are seeking.

No one questions, for example, that there are few Asians, Hispanics, or even whites, relatively speaking, in the NBA. Because we recognize that the selection of players by the various teams is meritocratic, as it should be. Blacks are better at basketball, by and large. It is not questioned. Every disparity in outcome does not imply fault or indict the society. Perhaps the group may be to blame, or perhaps it merely reflects group differences, self-selection, or preference? There are many more female nurses and teachers than males, for example. Does that imply misandry? Absurd. There are many more men in our military than women. Does that imply misogyny? Ridiculous. Precise proportional representation in a nation this diverse is not possible nor desirable.

I would recommend that you save your lectures for fellow left-wing, “woke” friends and colleagues in your private time, and relieve us of your balkanizing, predictable, and monotonous sermons. And, by the way, spare us other leftist shibboleths as well, such as “climate change.” Puhleease… 

Steer clear of it. We have quite enough of it already. It is ubiquitous. It does not belong in an ENT newsletter. If you want to affect politics write a column for the New York Times or run for office. 

I do not expect you, for example, to make pro-Trump, pro-MAGA pronouncements, or call for secure borders, ending sanctuary cities, locking up criminals, fracking, or abolishing abortion, in an ENT venue, sentiments that I however approve of. But it is not your place to do so and there is an abundance of non-medical, opinion forums for that. Similarly, I do not expect you to drive a divisive, anti-American, leftist agenda, offensive, I would imagine, to the majority of your readers, if not a large plurality, in an ENT publication. 

You have unnecessarily politicized and brought dishonor to what was otherwise an excellent and fine ENT newsletter. A shame. I would recommend you scale it back totally and stick to ENT. However self-righteous and virtuous you may feel in doing so, your unnecessary polemics are distasteful to me and, I suspect, many others. Cut out the race, gender, diversity nonsense, and spare us the politics.” 

I sent this to the Editor and staff at ENT Today along with some 40 odd members of the advisory board. Not surprisingly, I heard not a word. Humility and acceptance of wrongdoing is not a trait of Leftists, besotted as they are with their secular faith.  But, at least, they have heard. Better that than to continue in their stuporous path, oblivious to how drunken they are in their misbegotten ideology.  As there is an awakening occurring in the aftermath of the horrendous COVID panic and hysteria, here too there is a Medical Freedom movement forming. 8,9,10,11,12,13,14

1. Kuppersmith, Ronald B: Letter from the Editor: Otolaryngology Must Address Diversity, Gender Bias, May 5, 2019, ENT Today,

https://www.enttoday.org/article/letter-from-the-editor-otolaryngology-must-address-diversity-gender-bias/ 

2. Chiu, Alexander G.: Letter from the Editor: Lessons We’ve Learned, July 16, 2020, ENT Today

https://www.enttoday.org/article/letter-from-the-editor-lessons-weve-learned/ 

3. Jones, Lamont; Francis, Carrie L; Faucett, Erynne A.: Black Otolaryngologists Share Their Experiences with Discrimination in Medicine, July 31, 2020, ENT Today

https://www.enttoday.org/article/black-otolaryngologists-share-their-experiences-with-discrimination-in-medicine/?singlepage=1 

4. Chiu, Alexander G.: Letter from the Editor: Let’s Talk Politics and Personal Choices, October 12, 2020, ENT Today, https://www.enttoday.org/article/letter-from-the-editor-lets-talk-politics-and-personal-choices/ 

5. Nierengarten, Mary Beth: Opening Doors: An Otolaryngologist Helps to Build Diversity, November 29, 2020, ENT Today,

https://www.enttoday.org/article/opening-doors-an-otolaryngologist-helps-to-build-diversity/

6. Kossoff, Linda: Women in Otolaryngology Hold Fewer Leadership Roles, July 16, 2020, ENT Today https://www.enttoday.org/article/women-in-otolaryngology-hold-fewer-leadership-roles/ 

7. Nierengarten, Mary Beth: How Climate Change May Be Affecting Sleep Patterns For Adults and Children, March 16, 2021, ENT Today,

https://www.enttoday.org/article/how-climate-change-may-be-affecting-sleep-patterns-for-adults-and-children/ 

8. Moss, Richard: Op-Ed: A George Floyd Post-Mortem, September 11, 2020, Indiana Policy Review,

https://inpolicy.org/2020/09/op-ed-a-george-floyd-postmortem/

9. Moss, Richard: George Floyd: Lies, Myths, and Fraud, September 9, 2020, VIPNews,

http://www.theofficialvipnews.com/google2badecc5bb02684b.html/2020/09/09/george-floyd-lies-myths-fraud-by-richard-moss-md/ 

10. Moss, Richard: BLM Republicans, July 22, 2020, American Thinker,

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/07/blm_republicans.html

11. Moss, Richard: Reparations of Liberty? September 16, 2019, American Thinker

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/09/reparations_or_liberty.html

12. Moss, Richard: Hydroxychloroquine, Me, and the Great Divide, May 30, 2020, American Thinker,

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/05/hydroxychloroquine_me_and_the_great_divide.html

13. Moss, Richard: When Red States Act Blue, May 14, 2020 VIPNews

http://www.theofficialvipnews.com/google2badecc5bb02684b.html/2020/05/14/when-red-states-act-blue-by-richard-moss-md/

14. Moss, Richard: The 1932 and 1939 Project: How the New York Times Covered Up Murder and Genocide, November 6, 2019, American Thinker,

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/11/the_1932_and_1939_project_how_the_new_york_times_covered_up_of_murder_and_genocide.html

Richard Moss, M.D., a surgeon practicing in Jasper, IN, was a candidate for Congress in 2016 and 2018. He has written “A Surgeon’s Odyssey” and “Matilda’s Triumph,” available on amazon.com. Contact him at richardmossmd.com or Richard Moss, M.D. on Facebook, Twitter, Parler, GETTR, Gab, and Instagram.

 

 

IPAC Announces 2021 Award Winners

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The Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council honored several people during its Winter Conference Awards Ceremony this past week, including legislators, victim advocates, administrators and law enforcement officers. In all, 10 individuals were recognized at the ceremony for their accomplishments during the past year and over the duration of some very long careers.

This was the first awards ceremony IPAC has hosted since 2019, with the 2020 event being canceled due to the COVID pandemic. As a result, there were several winners and some awards were handed out to multiple nominees. The highlights of the evening were the Powell – Feller and the Stephen J. Johnson awards. The Powell – Feller award is the highest award handed out by the Association of Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys, Inc. and has been given to prosecutors, judges, attorneys general and governors. This year, the award was bestowed on Amy Richison, the former Huntington County Prosecutor who recently became a Magistrate Judge in Huntington County. Richison was extremely involved with IPAC during her tenure as prosecutor, sitting on the Board of Directors and often serving as faculty at training courses. The award was especially poignant for Richison as her father, former prosecutor John Branham, is also a Powell – Feller recipient, winning the award in 2006. Branham was on hand at the ceremony to see his daughter win the award.

“I remember sitting in the audience 15 years ago when my dad won and just being so proud of him,” Richison said. “So to have him and my mom here with me tonight is such an honor.”

The Stephen J. Johnson award, named after former IPAC Executive Director Stephen Johnson, is given to Indiana prosecutors who have provided exemplary service during their careers. The 2021 winner was Tippecanoe County Deputy Prosecutor Timothy Kern, who just celebrated his 40th year at the prosecutor’s office this summer. His boss, Tippecanoe County Prosecutor Pat Harrington marveled at Kern’s dedication, legal acumen and passion for teaching.

“He’s a hard worker, he’s a great mentor, he’s a brilliant lawyer and I’m so proud of him for winning this award,” Harrington said.

The IPAC Board of Directors also handed out four Legislative Excellence Awards for 2021. The winners were Representative Tim Brown, R-Crawfordsville, Representative Greg Steuerwald, R-Avon, Senator Eric Koch, R-Bedford and Senator Ryan Mishler, R-Bremen. The four lawmakers were all selected for their work on IPAC’s priority legislation of the 2021 session, the High Tech Crime Units bill.

Rep. Steuerwald was the author of House Enrolled Act 1082, Sen. Koch the Senate sponsor and both Rep. Brown and Sen. Mishler were selected for their roles as the chairman of each chamber’s budget committees. The legislation will be a game-changer for criminal justice in Indiana and would not have been possible without the efforts of those four lawmakers.

Two law enforcement officers were also recognized for their accomplishments during the ceremony. Washington County Police officer Brandon Garland, who also works for Daviess County’s Drug Enforcement group, won the Law Enforcement Officer of the year award for 2021. His nominator, Daviess County Prosecutor Dan Murrie credited Garland with singlehandedly transforming the county’s drug interdiction program.

The 2021 award program featured the debut of a brand-new award, the Law Enforcement Distinguished service award, created to celebrate law enforcement officers who have had lengthy and successful careers working with prosecutor offices. The first recipient of this award was Hendricks County investigator Rick Lang, who is retiring at the end of 2021 after more than 30 years in law enforcement.

The awards ceremony also celebrated outstanding office staff in prosecutor offices around the state. As IPAC Executive Director Chris Naylor told the audience, “without the crucial office staff who handle the day to day operations of the office, prosecutors would be unable to do their jobs.”

Two office administrators were recognized for their long service. Cindy Pope from the Monroe County Prosecutor’s Office and Diane Singer from the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Officer were both given IPAC’s Kathy Falkner Richey Award for outstanding service as office staff.

And Shelby County’s Victim Services Coordinator, Rebecca Miller, was honored as the 2021 Victim Advocate of the Year for her long career in helping crime victims of Shelby County as they try to navigate the often complex legal world.

“The IPAC Board had some very tough decisions to make this year and we are proud of all the nominees that we were able to honor in 2021,” IPAC Executive Director Chris Naylor said. “The awards ceremony is our chance to say ‘thank you’ to those who deserve to be recognized for their service.”

Foundation Spotlight: Rebekah Lynne Shinabarger Memorial Scholarship

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Foundation Spotlight:
Rebekah Lynne Shinabarger Memorial Scholarship
Every single dollar contributed to this fund impacts the life of a nursing student and the lives of the patients who will be served by that nurse. Rebekah’s infectious smile, inquisitive nature, intelligent mind, commitment to family and friends, servant’s heart, fun-loving spirit, and steadfast faith will never be replaced. After considerable thought and prayer, the Shinabarger family decided one tangible way to remember Rebekah was through this memorial scholarship fund.
Rebekah desired to be an excellent nurse by offering the best medical care combined with a heart filled with the love of Jesus Christ. The Shinabarger family endowment continues to assist nurses completing their degree or pursuing graduate school who shares Rebekah’s hopes and dreams.

Holiday Patrols Target Impaired and Dangerous Drivers

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Holiday Patrols Target Impaired and Dangerous Drivers

Indiana State Police will be increasing patrols during this upcoming holiday season, as part of a statewide crackdown on impaired and dangerous driving.

Starting this week until Jan. 1, troopers will be on high alert for anyone driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Law enforcement will also be watching for seat belt violations and other forms of dangerous driving.

The extra patrols are part of the Safe Family Travel campaign aimed at reducing crashes and traffic fatalities around the holidays. The high-visibility patrols are funded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) with a grant from the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute (ICJI).

Every year, more than 10,000 people die in drunk-driving crashes in the U.S. That’s approximately one person every 52 minutes. While driving under the influence is a daily concern, it’s more prevalent around certain holidays, with Christmas and New Year’s among the deadliest.

Last December, 73 people lost their lives in fatal collisions in Indiana. Of those, 11 involved a drunk driver, according to ICJI.

The Indiana State Police is asking for the public’s help to keep Indiana roads safe this holiday season by designating a sober driver or using a ride service, public transportation, or taxi if alcohol is consumed. Motorists are also encouraged to wear a seat belt, slow down, put down the cell phone and to make sure kids are properly buckled up.

Motorists can report suspected impaired drivers by calling 911.

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OLIVIA HUGGLER, TRENTON GIBSON AND MALE VICTIM DIES FROM GUN SHOT WOUND

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Olivia Huggler, age 18, of Evansville.  Olivia Huggler Dies From Gun Shot Wound

The  Vanderburgh County Coroner’s Office and the Evansville Police Department are investigating the death of Olivia Huggler, age 18, of Evansville.  Olivia Huggler died at Deaconess Midtown Hospital on 12-15-2021 at 17:37. She had been taken there on 12-14-2021 after having suffered a gunshot wound at her home on Kirkwood  Drive in Evansville. The death has been ruled a homicide. The Evansville Police Department can provide updates on the investigation.

Trenton Gibson, Age 18, Of Evansville. Trenton Gibson Dies From Gun Shot Wound

The Vanderburgh County Coroner’s Office and the Evansville Police Department are investigating the death of Trenton Gibson, age 18, of Evansville. Trenton Gibson died at Deaconess Hospital after having been taken therefrom Cross St. by ambulance shortly before his death. An autopsy determined that Trenton Gibson died from a  gunshot wound to the torso. The death has been ruled a homicide.  The Evansville Police Department can provide updates on the investigation

Shooting/Murder Investigation 600 block of Cross St.

SUMMARY

On 12/14/2021, around 3:50 a.m., Evansville Police Officers were dispatched to the 600 block of Cross St. for a male down on the ground who was unconscious and slowly breathing. The caller initially thought it was an overdose and said the male had an abrasion on his head. The caller did report hearing a gunshot in the area.

When officers arrived on the scene, they located the male victim and he was transported by ambulance to a local hospital. The male passed away at the hospital a short time later.

It was determined by medical staff that the male victim had a gunshot wound. The Vanderburgh County Coroner’s Office ruled this death as a homicide and has released the name of the victim. There is no suspect information at this time. This investigation is still active.

If you have any information about this incident, please contact Adult Investigation Unit at (812) 436-7979.

 

UPDATE : Shooting 800 blk of Kirkwood Dr.

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On December 15th, 18-year-old, Daniel Lawrence Alvey, was arrested for 3 Counts of Attempted Murder in reference to the shooting that occurred yesterday in the 800 block of Kirkwood Dr. Through their investigation, detectives learned that Alvey was hired by Samuel Huggler to kill one of the victims on Kirkwood Dr.

Around 5:00 p.m., 25-year-old Samuel Huggler was arrested for Conspiracy to Commit Murder. Both Huggler and Alvey have been booked into the Vanderburgh County Confinement Center.

At this time, at least two of the three victims are being treated for life- threatening injuries. There will be more updated information given as more details become available.

On December 14th, around 5:45 p.m., Evansville Police Officers were dispatched to the 800 block of Kirkwood Dr. for shots fired. The caller reported hearing 3 shots and said someone had been shot. When officers arrived on scene, they located three victims who had been shot. All three victims were transported by ambulance to a local hospital. The extent of their injuries is unknown at this time. None of the victims were juveniles.

The suspect had his face covered and approached the victims at their residence. The suspect fled the scene in a vehicle before officers arrived. Little information has been provided about the suspect at this time. The investigation is still active. Detectives are asking that if anyone has information regarding this incident to please contact the Evansville Police Adult Investigations Unit at (812) 436-7979.

Anyone with information concerning this incident is asked to call the E