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'€˜I'm the hero!': Surgeon allegedly rams car into cop after 'assault'
2016-02-20
[NY Post] A cancer surgeon with a God complex boasted that her job saving lives made her far superior to the lowly NYPD officers who hauled her away in cuffs for hitting a cop with her car in Midtown, prosecutors said Friday.

"I am a doctor. I have patients who are dying. I'm the hero; the cops are not!" Dr. Rachel Wellner, 40, told police when she was arrested for striking an officer's leg with her Volvo on Thursday to avoid a parking ticket, prosecutors said at her arraignment.

"I don't accept a summons. The police assaulted me," she allegedly said.

Police sources said Wellner -- who was released without bail on charges including resisting arrest and leaving the scene of an accident -- was "a hot mess" when she was busted.

"She was saying, 'I don't have time for this. I have to get to the hospital,' " the police source said.

"Officers were trying to reason with her about the summonses, but she wasn't having it. So she jumped in her car as the officer was trying to cuff her, and she sped off hitting the officer."

After she was arrested in her green scrubs, Wellner burst into tears and threw a fit about being handcuffed, punctuating her griping with medical jargon, the police source said.
Posted by:Besoeker

#12  You're in Chitown Dr Steve, she's in NYC.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-02-20 23:36  

#11  Too bad we don't have a time machine, we could deport her ass to the Tang Dynasty, and she could tell them all about Her Degree.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2016-02-20 22:50  

#10  Wellner, who received her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth in 1997, begged The Post on Thursday to withhold her name for fear she would lose her job.

Enough said.
Posted by: Pappy   2016-02-20 18:08  

#9  Ooops - comment to wrong doctor article.
Posted by: Glenmore   2016-02-20 15:15  

#8  He probably provided better medical care than some 'real' doctors, for instance Kermit Gosnell.
Posted by: Glenmore   2016-02-20 15:14  

#7  You'd be lucky if the stairs didn't dump out right into a busy street, Dr. Steve.

I'm not a doctor, so I'd probably just disappear somewhere near 26th and California.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2016-02-20 14:30  

#6  I'm also a doc; I think if I hit a cop with my car that I'd still be in jail with no bail. After I got thumped down elebenteen flights of stairs...
Posted by: Steve White   2016-02-20 14:11  

#5  A little digging turns up quite the media profile for the good Dr. TV appearances, interviews, articles. A sock puppet for 3rd wave feminism who came to believe the mythology, with the usual tragic consequences.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2016-02-20 14:00  

#4  Drug addiction problem?

How'd you guess?

Her twitter account shows links to bong user's site, "Feel the Bern" retweets and Black Lives Matter. Plus claims she is "100% nigga" and a "soul sista."
Posted by: Frozen Al   2016-02-20 13:42  

#3  Amazingly enough, when I did a Google image search for "Rachel Wesner, MD" most of the pictures showed a white woman.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2016-02-20 13:11  

#2  Drug addiction problem?
Posted by: Sven the pelter   2016-02-20 10:55  

#1  The only ameliorating circumstance I can think of is if she'd been called in to do an emergency surgery on a patient at death's door.
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-02-20 10:51  

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