The fight to keep Christus Spohn’s Emergency Medicine Residency Program alive continued Wednesday morning at Nueces County Commissioners Court meeting.
There was debate over an item calling for the end of J udge Connie Scott’s special appointed committee to save the program. That set off some heated words by commissioners, the public and local doctors.
Precinct 2 Commissioner Joe A Gonzalez put on the agenda a call to disband Scott’s committee that was created in October.
“Commissioners can go wherever they want to go, like if I want to go to the Spohn meeting, I can go. I’m not representing the county, I’m representing myself. I’ll just go. But if its driven by the county in telling Spohn what they should do… its two different things to me,” Gonzalez said.
Gonzalez’s call to disband the committee had many in the meeting in shock.
“Given his [Gonzalez] clear dedication and history to healthcare, I initially thought it was a typo in reading the agenda for today,” physician Michael Brodeur said.