Is Abdul El-Sayed a doctor? Fact-checking Mike Rogers in Michigan Senate race – PolitiFact

Abdul El-Sayed has a doctor of medicine degree, commonly known as MD, from Columbia University in New York and a doctorate in public health from Oxford University in England. 

He did not do a residency after medical school, which is typically the next step in becoming a practicing physician, instead focusing on a career in public health. He’s never been licensed to practice medicine or treat patients. 

Michigan law and federal law define a physician as someone licensed to practice. But major medical professional organizations don’t have that requirement...

 https://politifact.com/article/2026/oct/14/abdul-el-sayed-doctor-physician-michigan-senate/

 

US doctor who contracted Ebola in DRC flown to Germany for treatment

Dr Peter Stafford’s wife and four children are also being monitored for symptoms amid Ebola outbreak in Congo…

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/20/ebola-outbreak-us-doctor-germany

 

Louisiana issues warrant for California doctor accused of mailing abortion pills

It is part of effort by anti-abortion activists and red states to target telemedicine abortion and providers across states…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/29/louisiana-california-doctor-abortion-pills-warrant

 

 

Bondi, amid Epstein backlash, ends case against MAGA-backed Utah doctor - The Washington Post

The attorney general ordered prosecutors to dismiss charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of faking vaccine cards and injecting saline into patients who wanted to dodge vaccine mandates...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/12/bondi-epstein-justice-department/

 

What It Takes To Advocate For One Of My Patients

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YRfSm8sMpKQ

 

Pregnant doctor denied Covid-19 vaccine sues Trump administration | Trump administration | The Guardian

A pregnant physician who was denied a Covid-19 vaccine is suing the Trump administration alongside a group of leading doctors associations, charging that the administration sought to "desensitize the public to anti-vaccine and anti-science rhetoric", according to their attorney...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/pregnant-doctor-covid-19-vaccine-rfk-jr-trump 

 

American doctor receives email from immigration officials telling her to leave the country immediately

"The language seemed pretty threatening to whomever it might actually apply to," she said...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/doctor-email-immigration-leave-country-rcna201698 

 

Texas sues New York doctor accused of mailing abortion pills across state lines | US news | The Guardian

Because Carpenter is based in New York, Paxton's lawsuit will come up against New York's shield law, which dictates that officials in the state will not cooperate with attempts by other states to sue or prosecute providers who send abortion pills to people in states that ban abortion. Seven other states have passed similar shield laws since the US supreme court overturned Roe...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/13/texas-abortion-pills-lawsuit-ken-paxton

Caitlin Bernard, who performed 10-year-old rape victim's abortion, faces hearing - The Washington Post

But Alice Morical, one of the attorneys for Bernard, was unequivocal in her opening statement that Bernard followed policy and complied with Indiana law...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/25/caitlin-bernard-indiana-abortion-rape-victim/

Boundless (Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Freethought Radio podcast)

Our guest this week is Dr. Christine Henneberg, author of the book Boundless: An Abortion Doctor Becomes a Mother. FFRF Legal Fellow Sammi Lawrence describes some first-amendment legal victories she was involved in, and describes the problems nonreligious seniors have while living in religious nursing homes. After reporting state/church news around the country, we hear the freethinking singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell perform "Both Sides Now."

Interview: 

https://ffrf.org/news/radio/show-items/item/42017-freethought-radio-march-2-2023

Texas doctor protests abortion law by admitting he carried out procedure

"I am taking a personal risk," Alan Braid wrote for the Washington Post. "But it's something I believe in strongly...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/19/texas-doctor-abortion-law-washington-post-supreme-court

Supreme Court justices say women must obtain abortion pill in person | PBS NewsHour

... The Supreme Court ordered Tuesday that women must visit a doctor's office, hospital or clinic in person to obtain an abortion pill during the COVID-19 pandemic, though similar rules for other drugs have been suspended during the public health emergency...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/justices-say-women-must-obtain-abortion-pill-in-person

Hospital CEO's response to Black doctor's COVID-19 death prompts backlash - ABC News

... "It's honestly a disgrace to the medical profession that they would blame the victim and the nursing team," VanHorne told ABC News on Wednesday. "To say that the nurses were intimidated by the patient, it's absolutely ridiculous when she was just trying to advocate for herself."...
https://abcnews.go.com/US/hospital-ceos-response-black-doctors-covid-19-death/story

US deports migrants who accuse detention center gynecologist of abuse

"Ice is destroying the evidence needed for this investigation," said Elora Mukherjee, a Columbia University law professor who is working with several of the women.....

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/11/us-deportations-women-allege-detention-center-gynecologist-abuse

Police Officer Suspended for Holding Black Doctor at Gunpoint on Own Driveway

A police officer has been suspended after video emerged of him brandishing his gun at a Black doctor parking on his own driveway in Colorado.
https://www.newsweek.com/police-officer-suspended-holding-black-doctor-gunpoint-own-driveway-1532359

Black babies more likely to survive when cared for by black doctors – US study | World news | The Guardian

When cared for by white doctors, black babies are about three times more likely to die in the hospital than white newborns
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/17/black-babies-survival-black-doctors-study

Stella Immanuel’s theories about the relationship between demons, illness and sex have a long history

President Donald Trump has a new favorite doctor. On July 27, the president and his son Donald Trump, Jr. tweeted a viral video featuring Dr. Stella Immanuel, in which the Houston pediatrician rejected the effectiveness of wearing face masks for preventing the spread of COVID-19 and promoted hydroxychloroquine to treat the disease. Journalists quickly dug into Immanuel’s background and found that she’s also claimed that having sex with demons can cause illnesses like cysts and endometriosis. ....
https://theconversation.com/stella-immanuels-theories-about-the-relationship-between-demons-illness-and-sex-have-a-long-history-143587

Caught Lying About Baseball Invite, President Calls Twitter Criticism “Illegal” and Endorses Demon-Sperm Doctor - Slate

It's this week's Trump Vincibility Watch, and the vincibility is still highly robust.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/trump-vincibility-watch-yankees-twitter-corruption-demon-sperm.html

“I Want an Apology”: Black Doctor Who Tests Homeless for Coronavirus Handcuffed by Miami Police

https://youtu.be/mxebsmN_t4M

Doctor who criticized hospital's measures against coronavirus is fired | TheHill

A Washington state emergency room doctor who spoke out about what he called a lack of protective measures being implemented against the coronavirus at his hospital has been fired. Dr. Ming Lin wrote in a Facebook post on Friday that he was terminated from his job at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham, Wash. ....
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/489969-doctor-who-criticized-hospitals-measures-against-coronavirus-is