You’re unconscious on an operating table. A stranger controls your breathing. Your life depends entirely on the person monitoring your vitals.
Now imagine that person just posted online about how much they hate people like you.
Welcome to healthcare in 2026.
The Warm-Up Acts
Let’s start with the merely disturbing before we get to the genuinely horrifying.
Dr. Kristin Lyerly is an OB-GYN in Wisconsin. She’s been posting information about where ICE agents might be staying in Milwaukee. Not because she’s treating them. Not because it’s medically relevant. Just to help protesters track federal law enforcement.
A doctor. Using her platform to assist in targeting federal agents.
Then there’s Registered Nurse Amanda Valentine, who posted a video explaining that she might get fired because she’s “not very good at hiding her facial expressions” and may tell ICE agents to “f**k off.”
She joked about begging for money on TikTok after losing her job for refusing to treat patients.
Meet Amanda Valentine, a nurse at @VMFHealth in Washington. She had a meltdown over ICE and says she may not be able to control her anger around the ICE agents in her hospital.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 23, 2026
"If you see me on tiktok this week begging for money, it's because I got fired for telling ICE to f*ck… pic.twitter.com/7iEKLQOhS2
This is a nurse. Someone who took an oath to care for people regardless of who they are. Laughing about denying care based on someone’s employer.
The Florida Anesthesia Nurse
Now it gets darker.
Erik Martindale is a Registered Nurse in Florida. His specialty? Anesthesia.
He posted on social media making clear that his hatred isn’t limited to ICE agents. It extends to Republicans in general. MAGA supporters specifically.
Read that again. This is a person responsible for keeping patients alive while they’re unconscious. He’s publicly announced his contempt for roughly half the country.
When you go under anesthesia, you are completely helpless. Your breathing, your heart rate, your oxygen levels — everything is in the hands of the person monitoring you.
Erik Martindale wants you to know he hates you before you go under.
Sleep tight.
The Queen of Psychopaths
But the worst — the absolute worst — is Malinda Cook.
She’s a CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist) at VCU Medical Center in Richmond. And she posted what amounts to a tutorial on how to murder patients using anesthesia drugs.
Specifically, she mentioned succinylcholine.
For those unfamiliar, succinylcholine is a paralytic agent used in anesthesia. It paralyzes your muscles — including the ones you use to breathe. In proper medical use, patients are intubated and ventilated. Given improperly? You suffocate while fully conscious, unable to move or scream.
It’s been used as a murder weapon because it’s nearly undetectable in autopsies.
And a healthcare worker just posted about using it on patients she disagrees with politically.
This isn’t dark humor. This isn’t venting. This is a medical professional publicly discussing how to commit undetectable murder on people she considers political enemies.
The Oath They Took
Every healthcare worker takes some version of the Hippocratic oath. First, do no harm.
These people are posting about doing harm. Targeting harm. Planning harm.
They’re not hiding it. They’re not whispering in private chats. They’re putting it on social media for the world to see, apparently confident there will be no consequences.
And why wouldn’t they be confident? Has anyone been fired? Has anyone lost their license? Has anyone faced criminal investigation for publicly discussing patient murder?
The Broader Problem
These aren’t isolated crazies. They’re a symptom.
Healthcare has become one of the most politically captured professions in America. Medical schools teach critical race theory. Hospitals mandate DEI training. Professional organizations issue political statements on everything from gun control to climate change.
The culture tells healthcare workers that conservative patients are the enemy. That MAGA supporters are fascists. That ICE agents are Nazis.
When you dehumanize people long enough, some percentage will start treating them as less than human. Including in medical settings. Including when those people are vulnerable and helpless.
The Risk Assessment
How are you supposed to know if your anesthesiologist hates you?
You can’t. That’s the terrifying part.
You can research your surgeon. You can ask questions. But the person who actually keeps you alive during the procedure? The nurses who manage your care when you’re sedated? You probably never meet them beforehand.
You’re trusting strangers with your life. And some of those strangers are posting online about wanting to hurt people like you.
The Question Nobody Wants to Ask
How many patients have already been harmed?
We’ll probably never know. Medical errors are common. Complications happen. Deaths occur. The difference between negligence and malice is almost impossible to prove.
But when healthcare workers publicly announce their hatred for certain patients — when they joke about denying care, when they post about undetectable murder methods — you have to wonder.
How many “complications” weren’t accidents?
How many “errors” were intentional?
How many conservatives have suffered worse outcomes because the person treating them saw a voter registration, a social media profile, or a bumper sticker in the parking lot?
What Needs to Happen
Every healthcare worker who has posted about denying care or harming patients based on politics should be immediately investigated.
Medical licenses should be reviewed. Hospital privileges should be suspended pending investigation. Criminal referrals should be made where appropriate.
And patients should be able to sue. If you can prove a healthcare worker posted about hating your demographic before treating you, that should be grounds for a malpractice claim at minimum.
The profession needs to police itself. Or the government needs to do it for them.
The Practical Reality
Until then, what do you do?
Some have suggested creating networks of verified conservative healthcare providers. That sounds nice, but it’s impractical for emergencies. You can’t choose your trauma surgeon.
You can check social media. You can ask questions. You can request different providers if something feels wrong. You can have family members present as witnesses whenever possible.
But the honest answer is: you’re vulnerable. You have to trust the system. And the system has people in it who openly want to hurt you.
The Bottom Line
A nurse in Florida posts about hating MAGA patients — while working in anesthesia.
A nurse anesthetist in Virginia discusses undetectable murder methods for political enemies.
Doctors track ICE agents’ hotels. Nurses joke about telling patients to f**k off based on their employer.
This is healthcare in 2026.
These people took oaths to heal. They’re posting about harming. And nobody seems to be stopping them.
The next time you go under anesthesia, you’ll think about this article. You’ll wonder about the stranger controlling your oxygen. You’ll hope they’re not one of the ones who posted.
That’s not paranoia. That’s the reality they’ve created.
Welcome to the healing profession.