Ortrud Steinlein, Director of LMU Clinic for Human Genetics: “Due to Putin’s violation of international law … we are refusing to treat Russian patients …”
Two years of containment and health harassment have peopled the medical establishment with all manner of petty tyrants.
Irina Ioudina runs a company called Medical Munich, a kind of medical tourism bureau that helps Russian nationals travel to Munich to receive treatment in hospitals here. Recently, she received an email from Dr Ortrud Steinlein, director of the Ludwig Maximilians-Universität Clinic for Human Genetics, announcing that her facility would no longer treat Russians:
Dear Ms Ioudina
due to the serious violation of international law by the autocrat Putin, who is obviously mentally disturbed, we are refusing in principle to treat Russian patients, with immediate effect. Ukrainian patients remain of course very welcome.
Sanctions have made it all but impossible for Russians to receive treatment in Germany in any case, but after screenshots of this outrageous email made the rounds, LMU clarified that the doctor had “communicated her personal opinion in a very emotional situation” and that their clinics will “treat all patients regardless of nationality, religion, cultural or gender orientation.” (Steinlein has also reportedly apologised privately to Ioudina.) This is the same LMU, which last December immediately fired and banned from the premises an unvaccinated employee of their Institute for Pathology, for the crime of posting a viral video to TikTok about the testing harassment to which she was subject.
Dr Steinlein’s attitude should surprise nobody. There is the proximate cause, that throughout the West, health professionals have spent the past six months fantasising about denying medical treatment to people whose views on vaccination differ from their own. And there is the more general politicisation of the entire medical profession over the past two years, which has left us with a whole hoard of petty tyrants like Steinlein, who now believe it is their responsibility to shape and enforce all manner of government policies.
The consequences of containment will be with us for a very, very long time.
In wartime, battlefield doctors are expected to give medical treatment to the wounded soldiers of the opposing side. We are truly reaping the ill harvest of years of censorship and cancel culture. When people are willing to face no criticism of their ideas for so long, they become more arrogant, brittle and filled with this kind of overwhelming stink of self-righteousness. The need to virtue signal to their perceived peer group is stronger than any innate sense of right and wrong. The problem is that increasingly, the peer group that they believe would appreciate this is an illusion created by enforced conformity of media and social media. They are playing to a choir that is mostly of their own fevered imagination.
Everything I said seems to also apply to the politicians and diplomats managing our Ukraine crisis as well.
This will not end well.
Disgusting human being. Like the Russian people have any decision in this. Wow. This is just plain evil. A monster on the loose. Makes me so very sad people have become like this and so very openly.