Appropriate.But will she go out for some comfort soup?
Dr. Nancy Snyderman has stepped down from her post as NBC’s chief medical editor, following a controversy that erupted last fall when she broke a self-imposed quarantine after returning from covering the Ebola outbreak in Liberia.
Dr. Snyderman drew criticism in October when she was seen in public in New Jersey days after promising to quarantine herself for 21 days. While in Liberia, she had worked with Ashoka Mukpo, a camerman who had contracted the Ebola virus.
After an extended absence from television, Dr. Snyderman returned to the air in December, but the incident tainted her relationship with NBC, according to a person close to Dr. Snyderman.
In a statement Thursday, Dr. Snyderman said that she was leaving NBC to take a faculty position at a “major U.S. medical school.” Dr. Snyderman, who had worked for NBC for nine years, previously worked as a consumer education executive at Johnson & Johnson and as a medical correspondent for ABC.
“Covering the Ebola epidemic last fall in Liberia, and then becoming part of the story upon my return to the U.S., contributed to my decision that now is the time to return to academic medicine,” Dr. Snyderman said in a statement.
“How bad is that virus in the headlines?
The one with the waggly tail?
It’s surely no cause for isolation
Of journalists hungry for kale!”
NOTE: Okay, I know it was soup, but soup doesn’t rhyme with tail. Hopefully there was some kale IN the soup!
She will still get back on television, but it will be in the ‘doc-in-a-box’ clinic waiting rooms, where there’s always pre-recorded video segments about ‘personal health’ running nonstop instead of the Weather Channel.
posted 3/13 1239pm Texas[White Rabbit]Time
Unfortunately, Dr. Nancy thought the “M.D.” after her name stood for “Minor Deity”
Oooooo Shifra, naughty naughty. I love it. Could also mean minor dingbat. 🙂
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. But, no worries. Liberals always end up teaching in our universities, molding young minds to their “elitist” worldview. Mommas, don’t let your children grow up to be pompous fools.