This is shockingly bad journalism. The WaPo wants us to sympathize with Trump's surgeon general because he finds it hard to get hired. It briefly mentions a few of his worst statements but does not make him answer for them. This is the guy who tweeted, “Roses are red/Violets are blue/Risk is low for #coronavirus/But high for the flu."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/11/25/former-surgeon-general-faces-his-wifes-cancer-trump-effect/

Former surgeon general faces his wife’s cancer — and the ‘Trump Effect’

Jerome Adams and his wife want to tell their own story about melanoma and prevention.

The Washington Post
@jeffjarvis Ugh; when a doctor's messaging results in fewer people taking COVID seriously, fewer people getting vaccinated, and more people dying, how could you possibly think your industry (medicine/science) would be chomping at the bit to hire you. Either pure delusion or sociopathy to think that there should be zero consequences for your actions leading to more people dying, the opposite of what a medical professional should be doing.
@jeffjarvis Totally agree! They want us to forget that he LIED about the efficacy of mask wearing at the start of a global pandemic just to please the orange shit-gibbon in the White House.

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Lol.. they show their true colors, ignorance and horrid decision making and when no one likes them they whine about it…. I’d bet Elon would hire him… he seems to like morons…

@jeffjarvis choices have consequences
@jeffjarvis democracy dies in darkness is a reference to the ink of their print edition

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He thinks he* has it bad.. 🤭
These guys have it bad. (And I'm glad)
Mud is more than just a name for them..

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5-star hotel room...

@jeffjarvis I have been shocked at WaPo over that last year or two. It seems to me they are as lost as the NYT. I no longer subscribe to either.
@jeffjarvis I am shocked he still has an intact license to practice medicine. He should not. I for one won't be shedding any tears for these idiots loss of career options... They made their bed when they donned the red hat.
@jeffjarvis The entire medical professional went through years of Hell due to covid, covid deniers, and this guy's incompetence. You can't fuck over your entire field and then expect to be embraced afterwards.
@jeffjarvis sounds like he needs to completely delete all of his social media
@jeffjarvis Looks like he landed on his feet last year. Why is this article being published over a year after he got a very respectable job at Purdue University?
@jeffjarvis I’m shocked that you consider this nuanced feature “shockingly bad journalism.” It includes the facts that allow readers to draw their own conclusions about this guy, including why no one is eager to hire him, while feeling sympathy for his wife, groggy after surgery or chemo, being asked by him for her Facebook password so he can take down a post to placate Trumpers.
There’s really bad journalism out there. Keep your powder dry.
@jeffjarvis This type of reporting is why I refuse to pay for Washington Post or NYT. They can keep their both sides/sympathy for the devils stories behind their paywalls.
@jeffjarvis People don't' want to hire someone to does not follow the Hippocratic Oath. Who will lie and not protect there fellow human from COVID. All those who did the same need to face the same fate.
@jeffjarvis Read the comments though, in the Most Liked order. 99.9% are not buying it.
@jeffjarvis Does he like universal healthcare?
@jeffjarvis Yeah, I really, truly do not care what happens to that man. HE KILLED THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS with his stupidity. I wouldn't trust that jackass with flipping a hamburger. Let him rot.
@jeffjarvis It does mention that he harmed people under Gov Mike Pence in Indiana, and then got appointed by Trump.
@jeffjarvis Maybe if Jerome Adams hadn't put his career above good medicine and good science, he wouldn't be a pariah in the medical community today.
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Sense of entitlement is a conservative virtue.
@jeffjarvis We all know that if Trump had succeeded in his violent coup to end American democracy, these folks would go happily and usefully along for the ride.