That headline substantially undersells the story.

She's not a practicing doctor, she's a "Health Equity Director" (DEI hire who makes DEI accusations about the medical system) for the famously non-partisan NAACP.

And that's not the juiciest tidbit.

CNN Doctor Who Raised Alarms Over Trump Diagnosis Is an NAACP 'Health Equity' Director, Not a Practicing Physician

Chris Pernell works to 'drive equitable health outcomes and transform healthcare systems through a comprehensive socioeconomic approach valuing the whole person'

A CNN doctor who painted a dark picture of President Donald Trump's health appears not to have practiced medicine since her residency, instead spending her career as a diversity, equity, and inclusion specialist.

But that doesn't mean she's unreliable.

She is also an "apostle" of a church whose leader describes Trump as the "antichrist."

Ah.

Well she might have some light bias, then.

Chris Pernell, a frequent television doctor on CNN and other news stations, warned last week that President Trump's broadly unremarkable diagnosis of chronic venous insufficiency could be more than it seemed.

"It is a disease that is progressive," Pernell said. "And what that means is that if there aren't conservative treatments, elevation, compression, medication, if needed, to treat accompanying ulcers or skin changes, it can worsen and actually put a person at risk for deep venous thrombosis."

"Doctor" Pernell is right: People who are 78 years old tend to suffer from a progressive medical condition called "aging."

Though Pernell does have an M.D. from the Duke University School of Medicine and completed a residency with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, her LinkedIn page does not mention having treated patients. After completing her degree at Duke, receiving a Master's degree in public health from Columbia, and her time with Johns Hopkins, Pernell served as "Chief Strategic Integration and Health Equity Officer" at University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey. In that role, she drafted the hospital's first "equity and inclusion strategy," hired the hospital's first "director of equity and inclusion," and instituted mandatory implicit bias and structural racism training.

Sounds like she was a DEI "doctor" all along, and bailed out before she started murdering people through malpractice.

Pernell said during an October 2022 appearance on the Karen Hunter Show that she faced multiple compliance probes from hospital leadership, stemming in large part from her public criticism of Trump and Republicans. In 2021, for instance, she compared vaccine-skeptical Americans to white supremacists on MSNBC's airwaves.

Pernell had resigned from the hospital a month earlier after an intensive and unsuccessful campaign to become CEO. She claimed during her conversation with Hunter that she had been "forced out," blaming her departure on...

You'll never guess the last word in that sentence. Go ahead, guess. You'll never get it.

... racism.

Okay so you got it. What do you want, a parade?

"I have had an outpouring of physicians--in particular black physicians, black corporate executives, women generally, and people throughout the field of medicine and public health--stand up and say, 'What happened to you, unfortunately, is a part of a pattern of abuse,'" Pernell said. "'It is an abusive relationship between white power structures and black executives.'"

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Pernell's work in the Garden State also led to her being tapped to serve on the New Jersey Reparations Council as a member of its health equity committee. In that capacity, she approved a report calling not only for reparations but also for non-citizen voting, ending deportations, and a new state agency that "would disproportionately serve to expand homeownership to Black New Jersey families."

In addition to her work on equity, Pernell has also pursued an ecclesiastical career as an "apostle" of the Bet Hashem YHWH church movement founded by her brother, Timothy Pernell Jr.

Timothy Pernell Jr. has described white Evangelical Christians as agents of Satan.

"White evangelicals call pedophile Trump, anointed, called, chosen, and appointed by Christ," he wrote last week on Facebook. "They are SICK !!!!!! Trump is a pedophile and a rapist and an antichrist. White evangelicals have done the work of Satan and attempted to destroyed [sic] America."

More at the link.

A Timeline Witch just emailed me: "That DEI bitch be crazy. She's distracting from the important work the rest of us useless eaters are doing to reunite the timelines."