Can you imagine your doctor stealing your watch while you are in the emergency room for treatment? This is something that I would never have imagined happening, but unfortunately, this is exactly what did happen to a former police lieutenant in California according to a lawsuit filed by his adult children. When their father was rushed to St. Joseph’s Medical Center in California with heart problems, the emergency room physician, Dr. Cleveland Enmon, allegedly noticed the expensive presidential Rolex watch belonging to the patient and he allowed his patient to die from a heart attack so he could steal the watch.
At the outset, this sounds far-fetched and highly unlikely. However, the lawsuit states that two nurses at the hospital noticed the missing watch and, after hospital security was called to investigate, the doctor allegedly defied security orders and left the emergency room to go outside and throw the watch into the grass. Apparently the hospital’s administration confronted the physician with video taped evidence of the theft and removed him from working at the hospital. Dr. Enmon was indicted on 1 count of grand theft on August 25, 2009.
If not our doctor, who can we trust?
In my 47 years of experience, I have come to agree with the Psalmist who says: It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. (Psalms 118:8)
