On Dr. Ryan Marino, Covid vaccines, and the rage of the tolerant left
The Ohio physician and drug legalization advocate has a mean streak, especially to women. Are his hospital and the state medical licensing board comfortable with his public attacks?
Dr. Ryan Marino, an Ohio emergency medicine physician with almost 80,000 followers on Twitter, is angry.
Angry that fentanyl is illegal. Angry at news outlets that report on the severe vomiting that heavy cannabis use can cause.
Angry at anyone who hasn’t taken an mRNA Covid vaccine – or believes the shots can have side effects.
Angry most of all at anyone who has the gall to disagree with him.
Especially anyone female.
At 2 a.m. Monday morning, Dr. Marino accused Emily Ekanayake, the mother of 15-year-old with a documented mRNA vaccine injury, of trying to use her son for money.
He has also referred to Ekanayake, a high school physics teacher in Georgia whom he has never met, as “super emotional and unhinged,” a “Karen,” and a “stalker.”
Dr. Marino first attacked Ekanayake in March, after she posted about her son Aiden’s Covid vaccine-caused myocarditis. The injury caused Aiden to be hospitalized for four days.
In response to a question from a follower, he wrote that vaccine injuries are “not a medical diagnosis,” and later told Ekanayake to “call us when you finish med school then.”
In an interview, Ekanayake said Dr. Marino’s treatment of her has exhausted her and that her husband has encouraged her to leave Twitter. She has refused. “I don’t feel like letting a bully win is an example I want to set for myself and my kids,” she said.
But Ekanayake is not the only woman to feel Dr. Marino’s wrath of late.
In the last 10 days, Dr. Marino has called another woman a “mommy blogger” and dismissed a third – a fellow physician – as “ranting,” “annoying,” and “miserable,” because she wrote something he did not like about cereal.