{"id":48558,"date":"2025-07-08T11:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/48558\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T11:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:32:07","slug":"texas-pediatrician-no-longer-employed-after-post-about-pro-trump-flood-victims-texas-floods-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/48558\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas pediatrician \u2018no longer employed\u2019 after post about pro-Trump flood victims | Texas floods 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

A pediatrician for a chain of clinics affiliated with a prominent Houston hospital system is \u201cno longer employed\u201d there, according to officials, after a social media account associated with her published a post wishing the \u201cMaga\u201d voters of a Donald Trump-supporting county in Texas to \u201cget what they voted for\u201d amid flash flooding<\/a> that killed more than 100 people, including many children.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were made aware of a social media comment from one of our physicians,\u201d read a statement from Blue Fish Pediatrics circulated late Sunday. \u201cThe individual is no longer employed by Blue Fish Pediatrics.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement also said: \u201cWe strongly condemn the comments that were made in that post. That post does not reflect the values, standards or mission of Blue Fish Pediatrics. We do not support or condone any statement that politicizes tragedy, diminishes human dignity, or fails to clearly uphold compassion for every child and family, regardless of background or beliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blue Fish Pediatrics\u2019 statement neither named the physician in question nor specified whether she had resigned or was dismissed. But multiple publicly accessible social media posts identified her as Dr Christina Propst. A Guardian source familiar with the situation confirmed the accuracy of the posts naming Propst. And, at the time it issued the statement, Blue Fish Pediatrics had recently unpublished Propst\u2019s biographical page from its website.<\/p>\n

Attempts to contact Propst weren\u2019t immediately successful.<\/p>\n

The post attributed to Propst prompted many \u2013 including on social media \u2013 to pressure Blue Fish Pediatrics to take action against her. For one, while they are entitled to the same constitutional free speech rights everyone else in the country is, many US healthcare<\/a> providers are required by their employers to avoid publicizing opinions which could undermine trust in their profession among members of the public.<\/p>\n

But the timing of the post also caused offense, coming after communities along Texas\u2019s Guadalupe River were overwhelmed early Friday from flash flooding triggered by torrential rain. The river rose 26ft (8 meters) in 45 minutes after 1.8tn gallons of rain fell over a region including Kerr county, Texas, about 286 miles (460km ) west of Texas.<\/p>\n

As of Monday, officials were reporting more than 90 people had died \u2013 with others missing \u2013 during the flood. Many of those reported dead were in Kerr county. And many were children, including some who were attending Camp Mystic, a 99-year-old, all-girls, nondenominational Christian institution.<\/p>\n

In the post that preceded the end of her time at Blue Fish Pediatrics, Propst alluded to how Kerr county had \u2013 like Texas as a whole \u2013 voted<\/a> in favor of Trump as he defeated former vice-president Kamala Harris in November\u2019s White House election. Trump\u2019s administration has since eliminated<\/a> mentions of the ongoing climate crisis and its consequences, one of which is downpours like the one that devastated Kerr becoming more common. He has also mused about \u201cphasing out\u201d the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), in part so that the president\u2019s office could be in charge of distributing disaster relief funds and ultimately \u201cgive out less money\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cMay all visitors, children, non-Maga voters and pets be safe and dry,\u201d said the post, which invoked an acronym for Trump\u2019s \u201cMake America great again\u201d slogan. \u201cKerr county Maga voted to gut Fema. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for.\u201d<\/p>\n

The post concluded with the phrase: \u201cBless their hearts,\u201d which in the US south is often used as a condescending insult.<\/p>\n

Kerr county residents who survived the flood have since spoken<\/a> about losing all of their possessions, including their homes. They have also recounted seeking what have proven to be elusive answers about the level of preparedness from authorities in charge of protecting their communities.<\/p>\n

In short order, the post made its way to Blue Fish Pediatrics, which is described as an independent partner of Houston\u2019s well-known Memorial Hermann hospital network. The clinic chain \u2013 which was tagged by users demanding that it act against Propst \u2013 said in a statement that the group was immediately placing the message\u2019s author on leave. A subsequent statement indicated that the post\u2019s author was no longer an employee of the chain while expressing \u201cfull support to the families and the surrounding communities who are grieving, recovering and searching for hope\u201d.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a statement from Memorial Hermann said that the post\u2019s author was not directly employed by the network. The statement, though, made it a point to say, \u201cWe \u2026 strongly condemn these statements \u2026 [and] we have zero tolerance for such rhetoric which does not reflect the mission, vision or values of our system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Propst\u2019s unpublished biography described her as a native of New York who graduated from Princeton University in 1991. She later graduated from New Orleans\u2019s Tulane medical school, received certifications from the American board and academy of pediatrics and spent 17 years in group practice in Houston before joining Blue Fish in 2018.<\/p>\n

According to the unpublished biography, Propst was voted \u201cbest pediatrician\u201d in numerous reader polls conducted by Houston\u2019s Bellaire Examiner newspaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pediatrician for a chain of clinics affiliated with a prominent Houston hospital system is \u201cno longer employed\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-48558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}