Even before COVID-19, doctors faced harassment just for sharing health information. Now, in a pandemic where even evidence-based suggestions such as wearing masks and socially distancing have become political, doctors open their social media in a weary time only to find more anger.
I wish there was a way to taser trolls through the computer! Or at least trace these accounts and publish names, so that doctors might refuse these assholes as patients and let their worthless selves die.
Picture: Dr. Shikha Jain, director of oncology communication and digital innovation at the University of Illinois Cancer Center, in Chicago on Jan. 5, 2021. Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune