{"id":1520934,"date":"2022-06-17T14:49:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T18:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1520934"},"modified":"2022-06-17T14:49:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T18:49:45","slug":"fact-check-did-a-mayo-clinic-doctor-admit-to-intentionally-misdiagnosing-trump-supporters-with-ectopic-pregnancies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-a-mayo-clinic-doctor-admit-to-intentionally-misdiagnosing-trump-supporters-with-ectopic-pregnancies\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did A Mayo Clinic Doctor Admit To Intentionally Misdiagnosing Trump Supporters With Ectopic Pregnancies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-a-mayo-clinic-doctor-admit-to-intentionally-misdiagnosing-trump-supporters-with-ectopic-pregnancies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1520934&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><span>An image <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CeyyNkxO6jt\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;ig_rid=c76ae51f-d146-45c9-b3af-2f1402fb2287\"><span>shared on Instagram<\/span><\/a><span> purportedly shows a tweet from a Mayo Clinic doctor in which the doctor admits to intentionally misdiagnosing the healthy pregnancies of former President Donald Trump supporters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CeyyNkxO6jt\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The tweet is from a parody account. A spokesperson for Mayo Clinic confirmed the tweet was false.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Instagram image, liked over 11,000 times, allegedly shows a screen grab of a tweet from a Mayo Clinic doctor that reads, \u201cWhen Trump supporters come to my office at the Mayo Clinic, I love misdiagnosing their healthy pregnancies as ectopic so they have to abort their white fetuses.\u201d An ectopic pregnancy is one that occurs outside of the uterus and can be life-threatening to the mother, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/my.clevelandclinic.org\/health\/diseases\/9687-ectopic-pregnancy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cleveland Clinic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span>The tweet is a parody. An <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190421104929\/https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/drnifkin\"><span>archived version<\/span><\/a><span> of the Twitter account, which has since been suspended, includes a bio that reads \u201co<\/span>bstetrician at the world renowned Mayo Clinic parody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>Mayo Clinic first <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mayoclinic\/status\/1012879142176649216\"><span>tweeted<\/span><\/a><span> about the post in 2018, condemning the content of the post and stating the account had no connection to the organization. The clinic also called on Twitter to remove the account. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/02\/25\/fact-check-woman-world-record-17-babies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Viral Post Claims A Woman Set A World Record By Having 17 Children In A Single Birth)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We are aware of a parody account posting claims about working at Mayo Clinic. This is a fake account that has no connection to Mayo Clinic and its claims are absolutely false. We strongly condemn the posts and have asked Twitter to remove the account.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mayo Clinic (@MayoClinic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayoClinic\/status\/1012879142176649216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cA parody account created the message in 2018 that circulates on the internet about every six months,\u201d said a Mayo Clinic spokesperson in an email to Check Your Fact. \u201cThis is not an actual Mayo Clinic staff member.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time misinformation about reproductive rights has gone viral. Check Your Fact recently debunked viral claims that alleged Plan B was being banned in <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/05\/09\/fact-check-plan-b-ban-missouri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Missouri<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/05\/11\/fact-check-tennessee-plan-b-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tennessee<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Instagram purportedly shows a tweet from a Mayo Clinic doctor in which the doctor admits to intentionally misdiagnosing the healthy pregnancies of former President Donald Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":613,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}