about the emotional stress that that puts doctors under. it is a huk stress. we as doctors are trained to put our patient s concerns address benefits first. we re trained to do whatever we can to help the patient, to avoid problems, to do what the patient wants whenever we can, to respect the patient s wishes to do what he or she wants to do. this is part of the hippocratic oath to respect patients privacy, to put the concerns of our patients before our own. and yet now we re being told because of the i think unfortunate supreme court decision, that we cannot do that, that now we have to not do what is in the patient s best interests and not mention abortion. if the patients say look, i have four kids, i can t afford another child or i was the victim of rape or invest, i don t want to have this child, we can t say, you know, one option is abortion. so this puts tremendous strain on doctors because we re not
quickly, one word in the middle of a 19 word sentence. no one used the word again in the hearing. no one commented on it. the word now lives in the congressional record in a transcript of that hearing and perhaps that s where we should leave it because it is the single most grotesque word that has been used to describe what happened. it was in the testimony of dr. rory herrera, a certified pediatrician who himself is a graduate of robb elementary school. the doctor began his testimony with reference to his hippocratic oath as a physician. i swore an oath, an oath to do no harm. after witnessing firsthand the carnage in my hometown of uvalde, to stay silent would be to betray that oath. passivity is harm, delay is
happened. it was in the testimony of dr. rory herrera, a certified pediatrician who himself is a graduate of robb elementary school. the doctor began his testimony with reference to his hippocratic oath as a physician. i swore an oath, an oath to do no harm. after witnessing firsthand the carnage in my hometown of uvalde, to stay silent would be to betray that oath. passivity is harm, delay is harm. all of those things are harm. that is the harm inflicted on the american people and american schoolchildren by republicans. inaction, plasticity, and the way. that is what republicans always
0 into msnbc for our special coverage of the january six committee, beginning right here at 7 pm eastern. tell your family, tell your friends. this matters to america. and on that note, i wish you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with us, i will see you at the end of tomorrow. i know you ve been concentrating on the hearing tomorrow. i think concentrating on the house hearing this morning about uvalde, about the mass shooting in baltimore. i heard there something that changed my understanding of how bad this is. goes actually description by a doctor who treated some of the survivors and saw some of the bodies of the first dead children that they had at the hospital. his testimony, there are parts of it that i m not sure that every word he said about what he saw with those wounds got across. there is one word that he used that i m going to get you in this hour. it is a horrifying graphic ex description. there s
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