Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Jewish Doctor Who Supervised Treatment Of Anti-Semitic Pittsburgh Shooter Gives Amazing Response
On Monday, Channel 4 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania interviewed Dr. Jeff Cohen, President of Allegheny General Hospital, who is Jewish and a member of the Tree of Life synagogue, who helped supervise the treatment of the shooter who committed the worst massacre of Jews in America's history on Saturday morning at that synagogue. Asked what he saw when he met the shooter after the shooter had been treated, Cohen displayed no evident rage or bitterness, but simply gave a response that was the quintessential Jewish response when Jewish doctors wind up treating enemies of the Jewish people: that their job is to treat the patient with every means at their disposal.
Cohen stated: "Yesterday I went up to meet him, and I was just curious as to 'who is this guy?' And quite honestly, he's just a guy. And he's … people say that he's evil, he's this … he's some mother's son. And how did he get from that to where he is today? That's going to be a large debate that we have to wrestle with as a society."
The interviewer commented, "Effectively, you were sort of at the head of a team that saved his life."
Cohen responded, "It may be a bit of an overstatement, but yes. He was severely injured and he got great care here. Many of the people that attended to him were Jewish. And they're heroes. They did like the cops did; they did their job. They went and they confronted the problem and they were true to their core beliefs; and I'm very proud of them."
The interviewer asked, "And as a doctor, but also as a parishioner of the synagogue, and you looked into his eyes, what did you see?"
Cohen replied, "I just looked at him and he's like a lot of people that come in here. They're scared; they're confused; they don't quite understand it. But once again, my job isn't to judge him; other people give that — that's a pretty awesome responsibility. My job is to take care of him."
Cohen's response is not unique in the annals of Jewish doctors; Israeli doctors have time and again treated the terrorists who have targeted the Jewish people and been injured in the attempt.
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