The shame of an Argentine doctor in the United States: 'People get vaccinated in Miami while they go shopping'

Javier Firpo

01/13/2021 11:34 AM

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Updated 01/13/2021 11:34 AM

"

It is not illegal but it is amoral

and I would not be surprised if some vivacious person soon organizes a vaccination tour," says Brian Hunis, an Argentine oncologist and hematologist, head of oncology at Memorial HealthCare System, between indignant and surprised.

"

Argentina continues being bread and circuses

, where the vivillos look for to take a slice more".

From Villa Devoto, Hunis has lived in the United States for 18 years.

He lived in New York, then in South Carolina, until he settled in Hollywood, a town in Broward County, in the state of Florida.

His is the culture of effort.

He was received at the University of Maimonides at the age of 24, the same day that former president Fernando de la Rúa left the Casa Rosada by helicopter.

"That day I decided to go," he says.

He went to the United States, where he had to homologate the title and do a demanding residency until he became a leading specialist in oncology and hematology.

"What right does

a tourist have to take the vaccine away from a resident

who is genuinely waiting his turn? I find it outrageous about the Argentines and other Latin Americans who are traveling and show off their epic. With what right!" complain.

"The Argentine comes to Miami as usual and gets vaccinated while going shopping at a mall or to the beach in the midst of the pandemic," he says with modesty and shame.

Hunis established his position in a Facebook post, and with

Clarín he

is extremely upset by the images he saw of Yanina Latorre, especially, and Ana Rosenfeld, who made public on their networks that they or a family member were vaccinated.

"

They say the vaccine is free, the balls are free!

With my taxes

and with the taxes of those who live in the state of Florida we pay for the development of the vaccine.

What are we talking about?

I am paying the vaccination to

those unpresentable ones who are showing

off how they managed to get vaccinated. They embarrass me, "punishes the doctor, who has already applied the one from Pfizer.

Hunis says that "as always

we Argentines are the pioneers in these pioladas that enliven the giles and

today there are people from Panama, Mexico, Colombia and other places who have come to take the opportunity out of a nurse, a policeman or a repositor who worked throughout the pandemic and were

not lucky enough to get a shift

. They are the

usual advantages

of a product (the vaccine) that is not in abundance, which take advantage of the fact that the governor of Florida (Ron DeSantis), who is a Republican , decentralized the health system. "

Brian, at work at Memorial HealthCare System, where he is chief of oncology.

The professional maintains that he has patients with important pathologies "who would receive the vaccine in a very good way but could not do it. I could bring my parents, who are in Argentina, but it seems scary to me ... Maybe I

'm too Americanized

, but there is no other choice,

I have lived

here for a long time and the rules of the game are different,

if I do not adapt to this culture I will not progress ...

You cannot live taking the world ahead ".

Brian lets it be known that he is learning "about several cases of friends of friends, parents or uncles of friends or acquaintances who came or want to come." I find out because I am in that world where the news travels, some people pass the ball to others,

there is no kind of modesty, they take a ticket and come

, of course they are always the least needy, the ones with the most possibilities ".

To those who have contacted Hunis, he directly dispatches them, tries to dissuade them ... "

It is not available to those who are not residents",

I tell them and I remain calm with my conscience, but dissatisfied with what they hear they reply ' But if so-and-so's father went and had no problems. '

Then go ask so-and-so's dad.

If they don't win it, they'll stick it, it's incredible, but that's the way it is,

it sucks an egg to take the place of the person who really has priority or more right

".

The oncologist shares that it is common knowledge that to counteract the so-called

vaccination tourism

"it will end up asking for

a proof of residence, such as some service payment that certifies that one lives here

. But there needs to be uniformity of criteria. The CEO of the Jackson Memorial Hospital said it

doesn't care where people come from

, while where I work, while it doesn't take a public position, it in no way vaccinates tourists. "

Committed to the cause, in the last hours the Argentine doctor posted on Facebook: "To my Argentine friends:

understand that if you come to Miami to get the vaccine, they are taking it from someone

. It's not that whoever gets vaccinated here. teachers, police officers, firefighters and patients under 65 still wait ... Also people who live in this country and pay their taxes. "

"I have (many) patients waiting for their vaccine, and people come to Miami as if nothing happened and

get vaccinated while they go shopping at a mall or to the beach

in the middle of the pandemic. In short, typical Argentine liveliness ... of Last. And worst of all: those who have money to pay for their passage and a minimum stay of three weeks are vaccinated, "he concludes.

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