'What kind of gun blows someone's head completely off? I gotta get me one of those': Kansas Senate hopeful and radiologist exposed for posting photos of real patients' fatal injuries online with jokey descriptions
- Dr. Milton Wolf, a radiologist and distant cousin of President Obama, reportedly uploaded the images to Facebook in 2010
- He claims they were for 'educational purposes' but he has come under fire for his jokey asides
- He referred to one photo of a grisly injury as 'one of my all-time favorites'
- Wolf is running against incumbent Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) in the Kansas senate
- Has implied rival Roberts is behind the release of the photos
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A doctor who is running for a Republican Kansas senate seat has been exposed after he uploaded X-ray images of patients' fatal injuries to Facebook and made fun of them.
Dr. Milton Wolf, a radiologist and distant cousin of President Barack Obama who practices in Kansas City, told The Topeka Capital-Journal that he uploaded the photos for 'educational purposes.'
The paper maintains that the images were accompanied by Facebook comments made by Wolf and others making fun of dead or wounded patients.
Wolf has come under fire from members of the public, as well as from a spokesperson for political rival Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS).
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Dr. Milton Wolf has maintained that the photos were uploaded to Facebook for 'educational purposes'
Seen here with wife Karrie, Wolf is a distant relative of President Barack Obama
Milton Wolf, seen here in an image from his Facebook page, allegedly uploaded grisly photos of patients' X-rays to Facebook and 'made fun' of them. He is currently running for US Senate in Kansas
An image of a deadly bullet wound to one's patient's head, uploaded to Wolf's Facebook in January was accompanied by a series of chilling comments, the paper says.
Responding to a fellow user who complained when asked to straighten the patient's head, Wolf allegedly wrote 'Sheesh Melissa, it's not like the patient was going to complain.'
Wolf also allegedly wrote macabre comments about another patient who received a gun wound to the head and survived.
'One of my all-time favorites,' he allegedly wrote on the social media site. 'From my residency days ... there was a pretty active 'knife and gun club' at Truman Medical Center. What kind of gun blows someone's head completely off? I gotta get me one of those.'
He later added, 'It reminds [me] of the scene from Terminator 2 when they shoot the liquid metal terminator guy in the face at close range and it kind of splits him open temporarily almost like a flower blooming. We all find beauty in different things.'
Wolf, seen here in this Facebook photo taken at a Kansas City town hall, apologized for his online activity in a written statement on his website
On The WolfFiles.com, an X-ray was described as his '2nd favorite gunshot wound of all time'
TheWolfFiles.com, a political blog authored by Wolf, included a post on an X-ray of a gunshot wound, titled 'My Guess: A Jealous Husband or a Jilted Lover.'
'This is my 2nd favorite gunshot wound of all time,' he wrote. 'I wish I could tell you the story behind this awesome X-ray, but this patient came through the ER and they don't believe in obtaining patient histories (I wish I was kidding). I'm guessing a jealous husband or a jilted lover. I mean...2 gunshot wounds...to the back.'
Wolf, when pressed by the paper, reportedly did not respond to questions asking if he continued to upload these types of photos online.
He then published an statement about the photos on his campaign website.
'Several years ago I made some comments about these images that were insensitive to the seriousness of what the images revealed. Soon thereafter, I removed those images and comments, again several years ago.'
Wolf seemed to imply that that rival Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) was involved in the photos' recent release.
'For them to be published in a much more public context now, by a political adversary who would rather declare war on doctors than answer serious questions that Kansans have, is truly sad. However, my mistakes are my own and I take full responsibility for them.'
Seen with his wife and children in this Facebook image, Wolf even allegedly referred to one of the graphic X-ray images he uploaded as 'One of my all-time favorites' and said 'We all find beauty in different things'
A spokesman for Roberts, Leroy Towns, expressed his concerns about Wolf's behavior to The Topeka Capital-Journal.
'For any doctor to make patient records public and then use the records for public discussion and entertainment is just unthinkable,' he said. 'Allegations of such lack of judgment demand extensive scrutiny and investigation.'
Twitter users have also criticized the would-be politician.
'There will always be jerks, but are we having a jerk-epidemic in our country?,' wrote one.
Another user said '#DrMiltonWolf, #SenateCandidate under fire for posting grisly images to Facebook, how stupid are you?'
'That Milton Wolf seems like one classy dude,' another user wrote, apparently sarcastically.
Wolf has been married to wife Karrie Wolf for 23 years and they have two children.
He has also mentioned that he is related to the president repeatedly when criticizing his health care plan in his book 'Do No Harm: The President's Cousin Explains Why His Hippocratic Oath Requires Him to Oppose ObamaCare.' He has also won support from groups associated with the Tea Party.
Roberts, despite having high marks with conservative watchdog groups like Heritage Action for America and FreedomWorks, has recently come under scrutiny for his actual residency, Politico reports.
A New York Times article revealed Roberts owns a Virginia home and is registered to vote at the address of two donors rather than his own Kansas property.
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No he is not just "blowing off steam". There is no excuse for this. I work as a paramedic in a town that has on average about 3 fatal shootings a week. We see the gore, the ER sees the gore. By the time they get to the radiologist they are cleaned up. He isn't just dealing with a stressful job by making a few jokes. He is being disrespectful about the lives that were lost. No one I have ever worked with at my fire department and no one I have ever worked with in an ER would ever make a joke about a patient who died. This man clearly doesn't see them as human anymore because as a radiologist he isn't the one who tells the family that their son or daughter, husband or wife, mom or dad is dead. He should lose his license, period. He has no common sense or empathy for others. He is pro life but he clearly doesn't value life or he wouldn't have it on a fb page as a joke.
Man some of the people in the comment section need to learn how to read. They are all saying he is a democrate.....uh no...he is a republican. It's right there...in the headline.
Notice how he is all pro-life but standing there making callous and inappropriate jokes about the loss of someone's life and speculating on what they did to get shot. It's just anew level of hyppocritical.
Well he can say good bye to both his hopes for the senate and his job. Posting X-rays or photos of patients even if he didn't post their names is a major HIPPA violation it opens up him and his hospital to a lawsuit. You can bet his current workplace is gonna cut him loose. I've seen doctors fired for less.
He can't be too smart, a "Facebook" page with controversial subjects, an attempt at "humor while learning". So dumb he doesn't think that some people will be offended. What a disappointment. He's done, stick a fork in him.
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Jessica, Somewhere, United States, 7 minutes ago
So those arguing that these are anonomyous X-rays that no one could ever identify....take a peek at that shotgun X-rays on the Wolf files pic. Now look in the middle. Do you see that tiny tiny writing? That is standard on every X-ray. It's patient information, case number, date, time, location and if they have it....the name. He didn't even attempt to blur it out. So with even the barest minimum of information such as date and location or date and time you could identify the patient real easy. These were not for educational purposes either if they were they wouldn't be on Facebook and he would have the permission of the family.msomething he didn't bother to get along with not bothering to blur out patient information.