{"id":360064,"date":"2026-07-03T15:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360064\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T15:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:52:08","slug":"utmb-suspends-nurse-pending-investigation-into-viral-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360064\/","title":{"rendered":"UTMB suspends nurse pending investigation into viral video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Texas Medical Branch has launched an investigation into an\u00a0employee&#8217;s viral video decried by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/libsoftiktok\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Libs of TikTok<\/a> and other right-wing social media accounts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The video clip shows someone who appears to be a nurse backing out of a doorway, superimposed with the words &#8220;when I walk into my patient&#8217;s room and Fox news is blasting.&#8221; In the background, Whitney Houston sings &#8220;we both know I&#8217;m not what you need,&#8221; a line from her famous song &#8220;I Will Always Love You.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the account for &#8220;Nurse Ahlam&#8221; is now set to private, eight seconds of her video were\u00a0reposted to\u00a0Libs of TikTok&#8217;s account on X, where they received hundreds of thousands of views.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Muslim nurse who appears to work at @utmbhealth in Houston, Texas, posted a video appearing to show that she wouldn\u2019t treat a patient if they watch Fox News.\u00a0Any comment on a nurse discriminating against patients for political views @utmbhealth?&#8221;\u00a0the\u00a0account authors\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/utmbhealth\/status\/2072850305985794107?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">posted<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stills from the same video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DaU51GugVA9\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">were later shared<\/a> by content creators on additional social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Officials at UTMB responded directly to @libsoftiktok on X Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;UTMB is aware of the social media posts and is conducting an investigation. This individual\u2019s access to work at any UTMB facility has been suspended while the investigation is ongoing,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/utmbhealth\/status\/2072850305985794107?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">health center said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The owner of the original account, @nurse.ahlam.rn, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Texas Medical Branch has launched an investigation into an\u00a0employee&#8217;s viral video decried by Libs of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-360064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}