{"id":5410,"date":"2025-09-16T15:22:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=5410"},"modified":"2025-09-16T15:22:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:22:23","slug":"the-nurse-the-doctor-and-a-nation-on-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=5410","title":{"rendered":"The Nurse, The Doctor, and a Nation on Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>NJ Hospital Dispute After Kirk\u2019s Assassination<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on September 10 sparked reactions across the country, from grief to controversy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Englewood Health in New Jersey, it led to a clash between nurse Lexi Kuenzle and bariatric surgeon Dr. Matthew Jung.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kuenzle says Jung \u201ccelebrated\u201d Kirk\u2019s death in front of staff and a patient, declaring,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cHe had it coming.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>He deserved it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She challenged him, later telling Fox News,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cSpeaking up wasn\u2019t optional for me; it was my duty as a nurse.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both were suspended during an investigation. Kuenzle filed a lawsuit, claiming retaliation and a hostile workplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Englewood Health later accepted Jung\u2019s resignation and reinstated Kuenzle, emphasizing:&nbsp;<em>\u201cThe nurse was never fired\u2026 and will not miss any pay.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case has fueled debate about free speech, professionalism, and politics in medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Kuenzle put it:&nbsp;<em>\u201cEven if I disagreed with Kirk\u2019s views, I could never justify celebrating his murder.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NJ Hospital Dispute After Kirk\u2019s Assassination The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on September 10 sparked reactions across the country, from grief to controversy. At Englewood Health in New Jersey, it led to a clash between nurse Lexi Kuenzle and bariatric surgeon Dr. Matthew Jung. Kuenzle says Jung \u201ccelebrated\u201d Kirk\u2019s death in front of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5412,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions\/5412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}