Surgeon forced to resign after negative comments about Charlie Kirk

[mainer]

A nurse ratted him out on social media. Let me see. A man who’s saved actual lives is hounded out of a job because he said mean things about a man who said gun rights were worth a few people getting killed. How does this make sense?

https://nypost.com/2025/09/15/us-news/nj-surgeon-who-cheered-charlie-kirks-murder-resigns-as-suspended-nurse-who-called-him-out-is-reinstated/

[Chasstev365]

1. THIS IS INSANE! He was a two-bit PODCASTER!

[Initech]

37. I'm seriously getting to the "OH MY GOD WHO THE HELL CARES" part of this.

I like to think I have some empathy... but what MAGA is doing with this is fucking insane.

[valleyrogue]

55. In my neck of the woods, southern Oregon,

these nutjobs have held car cruises, prayer events, and general gatherings in memory of this grifting POS. These KKK types without hoods, robes, or cross burnings plan yet another cruise in a few days PLUS one on Kirk's birthday next month.

That is batshittery. Some of the people participating in this garbage I personally know. It is outrageous and an embarrassment.

[Torchlight]

2. We've entered the 'Only State-Sanctioned Opinions Will be Permitted' phase of out nation's growth.

nt

[Blues Heron]

3. It's like a medieval ergot madness outbreak.

[Clouds Passing]

6. Or too much meth

[The Roux Comes First]

27. Get That %#$(*& Rye Flour Off the Market!

[blue_jay]

32. You could be on to something... nt

[LyfeTimeDem]

4. negative or

Just telling the truth?

[JBTaurus83]

5. Free speech is gone.

[Greg_In_SF]

13. This has

absolutely nothing to do with the first amendment.

[fujiyamasan]

14. The poster said nothing about the first amendment

[Greg_In_SF]

21. 1st amendment...free speech

This has nothing to do with either.

[fujiyamasan]

24. This may not be a first amendment issue, but it is indeed a free speech issue

Apparently it’s totally cool now to fire people for not being sufficiently sad about Kirk and you’re claiming free speech is not under threat?

You do realize this isn’t the first incident, right?

[Greg_In_SF]

31. I do realize

this is not the first incident and it probably won't be the last.

Here's the deal, you a free to say anything you want at any time. However, you are not immune from the consequences by claiming "free speech". That is the distinction.

[crimycarny]

36. The Nurse should have been let go as well due to blasting it on social media

From what I'm reading about this story, the doctor made this comment in a private setting and apologized when the nurse in question was offended. If the nurse had complained to HR and kept it all in-house, that's one thing. However, she chose to share this on social media, including the hospital's name and the doctor's name.

THAT should have been a fireable offense, too. I work for a fairly large hospital chain, and we have to take a "Code of Conduct" course every year. Posting things on social media that reference staff and the hospital by name is cause for discipline or even firing.

If the doctor faced "consequences", the nurse should have as well.

[Greg_In_SF]

39. Not arguing that!

Just that this is in no way a 1st amendment or free speech issue. That's all.

[crimycarny]

47. Yes--I understand that

Sorry, didn't mean to imply anything else, was agreeing with your take on consequences, but was shocked that the nurse wasn't let go as well.

We've been getting slammed by our leadership with reminders about social media after a medical worker posted pictures of the entire staff making fun of human secretions left on exam tables (such as would happen with a pap smear).

To read that the nurse posted about the incident on social media, before any investigation was completed, just blows my mind that she wasn't fired.

[Mossfern]

40. Fired withoug cause...

surely you can see the writing on the wall. The surgeon has the right to appeal the firing and insist on being reinstated with repayment of any losses he had. Would you feel the same if he were fired because he prefers blue rather than green paint for the walls?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

41. He resigned

He wasn’t fired, or at least that’s what I read .

[Mossfern]

42. Did he give the reason for his resignation?

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ETA: "Forced to resign" is a kind way of saying "fired."
I was forced to resign from a government position because of differences of opinion regarding an ethical issue. I refused to do what was asked of me..

I was given a less controversial position because they didn't want me to open my mouth if I were actually fired.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

44. Article said he resigned...

…after the investigation was completed.

[Samael13]

45. I would argue it does

Most of this is happening because everyone is afraid of reprisals from the administration. I mean the justice department is looking into an office depot because someone refused to print flyers for a charlie kirk memorial.

[Cirsium]

20. error

Self deleted, I posted in the wrong place.

[Greg_In_SF]

22. That is the point

this is not a free speech issue. Period.

[Cirsium]

28. oops

I think I posted in the wrong place.

[Crunchy Frog]

50. Maybe not in this particular instance, but

when you have government officials actively promoting and participating in campaigns to get people fired for speech, which they are, then it definitely is a 1st Amendment issue.

[harumph]

7. I think the surgeon will be ok. But yeah this firing people is crazy.

[mwmisses4289]

8. Lawsuits, people. Hit them hard, hit them fast, and hit them where it will really hurt.

[Seeking Serenity]

9. Impulse control is a lost virtue

It's so sad

[Celerity]

10. Lexi Kuenzle, the MAGAt nurse rat:

[NoMoreRepugs]

16. Fluffer or a real nurse?

[Celerity]

19. Real, and she filed a lawsuit.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

23. She filed a lawsuit...

…because she was placed on unpaid suspension after she reported him and posted online about it.

Asshole move to report him and post about it, but also asshole move to suspend her for it.

[DiverDave]

48. Have you read the HR handbook

For that hospital? Many frown on posts naming the hospital and coworkers.

So, maybe rein in your horses. Until you know facts.
I hope she gets it thrown out.
Too bad she didn't lose her job.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

49. She has her job back

So I’m guessing she’ll drop the lawsuit.

And yes, they may well have a policy about social media, just as they may well have a political conversations around patients.

If the doctor felt he was as in the right, he shouldn’t have resigned and if fired, he could have fought it .

[kimbutgar]

17. She's got that Botox plastic surgery and boob job poison in her!

[Ilsa]

33. She's looking to go national! Trump's next Loomer! nt

[kimbutgar]

38. Loomer with her big fat Botox lips is gonna be real jealous

Being pushed aside for another side chick won’t bode well for her!

[Norrrm]

54. She can be made assistant Ambassador to Greece.

[AllaN01Bear]

11. the rwj talking heads were all over that on the air this morning . ugh.

[kimbutgar]

12. The surgeon will find another position and that nurse will become a hated pariah at that hospital

And she will regret what she did!

[OC375]

15. Cancel Culture

I think they've been waiting for an opportunity to harness it to their own ends.This would appear to be it.

[thought crime]

18. Your speech must conform to Official Lies.

And you better watch what you're thinking.

[Cha]

35. Yes, NO Thought Crimes!

Fuck those Nazi Assholes.

[Cha]

25. The "nurse" sounds nice...

[Cirsium]

26. F these snowflake MAGAs

I can't count the number of times I have heard much worse things from MAGAs about various Democrats, academics, authors, liberals in general, etc., at work, at the supermarket, in restaurants, on the radio and tv, on hiking trails ffs, for the last 20 years. Kirk made a living saying much worse things about people. Much worse.

[Klarkashton]

29. All I can say is ' Freedom Fries"

[Initech]

30. WTF!!! This is getting to be absolutely insane!

Also, fuck that nurse. Nobody wants to work with someone who rats out their coworkers.

[Ilsa]

34. "Said some mean things" Is it a repeat of what Kirk

said or did the dr rejoice in his death?

The hospital is stupid.

[GusBob]

43. What happened to the locals here about

The ones who scolded ‘every time someone on DU says something bad about , or celebrates the death of CK, it makes DU look bad’

A week ago today was it not?

One wonders if said folks are in agreement with people losing their jobs for even quoting things that dead asshole said?

[SamuelTheThird]

46. 1 Surgeon is worth 10 million kirks

[tavernier]

51. And now repubs are pissed off because Kirk

wasn’t mentioned at the Emmys. Lots of crying about that because they seem to think he was a star in show business.

[Blue Owl]

52. OK now FUCK THIS BULLSHIT

[viva la]

53. Don't resign!

Make them fire you and the threaten a lawsuit.

These MAGAS act like this puerile Kirk guy is St Stephen the martyr.

[ImNotGod]

56. Move to Canada, a much better country and they would welcome any professional that this shithole country abuses. nt

[mainer]

57. The nurse lied

Hospital says she was never fired and never suspended. She went online and blasted it out to the world. She wanted her 15 minutes of fame, and now a highly trained surgeon is gone.

“ Englewood Health disputed Kuenzle’s claim that hospital administrators told her she would be dismissed for voicing her displeasure to human resources and on her personal Instagram page.

“The nurse was never fired, was never told she would be fired by Englewood Hospital, and will not miss any pay as part of our review of this matter,” the hospital said in its statement. ”

https://www.nj.com/bergen/2025/09/nj-doctor-who-celebrated-charlie-kirks-death-resigns-nurse-who-outed-him-reinstated.html