Doctors' beliefs hinder patient care

[qdemn7]

From MSNBC Now this is going just too fucking far!!!!:grr: This sounds like some horrible joke, but it isn't:

Woman gets raped goes in for her exam at the ER, asks for emergency contraception and the Doctor tells her "No,"I can't do that. It's against my religion,"

And this isn't an isolated incident, this is just one woman.

Doctors refusing to perform abortions. (Yeah that's old news)
Doctors refusing EC.
Doctors refusing to prescribe ANY contraception.
Doctors refusing single women who want to adopt.
Doctors refusing single women infertility treatment.
Doctors refusing lesbians.
Doctors refusing women........

Wow, what do all these have in common? Uh.... let me think.... I know it'S WOMEN REFUSED TREATMENT!!!

In theory, the laws aren't aimed solely at women's health — a bill in New Jersey lists eye doctors and prosthetics technicians as examples of providers who'd be allowed to refuse care based on their beliefs. But Morrison warns women not to be fooled. "I ask you, what belief would keep someone from fitting a patient with a prosthetic limb?" she asks. "What they're really after is limiting access to women's health care. Reproductive health is seen as something other than regular health care" — not a straightforward matter of treating and healing, but something laden with morality — "and if you treat it that way, it becomes something providers can say yes or no to." Men, for the most part, escape such scrutiny: It's pretty hard to imagine someone being made to feel he's going straight to hell for choosing to take Viagra or get a vasectomy.

"Doctor, I want to get my dick hard. I won't go to hell will I?"

In a survey published this year in The New England Journal of Medicine, 63 percent of doctors said it is acceptable to tell patients they have moral objections to treatments, and 18 percent felt no obligation to refer patients elsewhere.

Please take time and read the entire article, it's lengthy I'm not going to post it here. Needless to say I'm so mad right now I know my blood pressure is gone way up.

[BOSSHOG]

1. Would such refusals be a violation of the hypocratic oath?

Freedom isn't free right? If ya wanna enjoy your constitutional liberties stick your fucking religious beliefs where your tax exemption does not shine. I long for the headline. Woman refused treatment because doctor disapproves of christians.

[Lance_Boyle]

7. Possibly a violation of the Hippocratic Oath

but perfectly in keeping with the hypocratic oath. ;-)

[Recovered Repug]

12. From the classical version of the Hippocratic Oath

Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy.

[BlooInBloo]

2. And the doctor's lobby, promulgating the myth of "frivolous malpractice suits"....

... When in fact there are 300,000+ preventable medical errors per year. They just care about covering their own asses.

EDIT: Subject typo.

[bryant69]

4. Well in fairness they are such huge asses, there's a lot to cover

I mean, they have huge asses . . . . i guess . . .

Bryant
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[terisan]

3. If sex is for marriage and children, single men should be refused viagra.

Give these physicians only limited licenses to practice.

[mainegreen]

5. Sure. And maybe I'll open a restaurant and put a sign in the window: 'No Christians Served'.

See how far that goes.

Strip those doctors of their right to practice. That'll put an end to this nonsense.

[BOSSHOG]

10. Outstanding Idea

Its against the chefs beliefs to cook for haters. Those sumbitches sure do like THEIR constitutional liberties don't they

[PassingFair]

6. I searched for months for the right OBGYN to deliver my 2nd baby.

After the 1st delivery was such a NIGHTMARE.

Imagine my dismay when she told me that she couldn't
"tie my tubes" after a scheduled C-section (if it came
to that, which it didn't) because she practiced in
a Catholic HOSPITAL. She wasn't on staff any where else.

If I wanted to have my tubes tied, I'd have to find some one else.
She wasn't against it, the hospital would have to make that
determination.

I never OCCURRED to me, in this day and age, that I couldn't
have the procedure if I wanted it, that some "board" had to
decide if it was in my best interest.

By the way, I was 37 at the time.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Under Model Rules, attorneys are not allowed to refuse representation

if they find the client to be personally offensive according to their belief system.

(OTOH, would you want an attorney whom you weren't 100 percent sure was working hard for your case?)

[demigoddess]

9. things haven't improved in 40 years, they have just come full circle

we have become the laughing stock of the world.
Yesterday on the radio a guy calling from Madrid, Spain that bastion of catholic morality has recognized gay marriage. When I lived in spain they were terribly puritanical. If our husbands weren't at hand we would flash our wedding rings a lot, spanish women did not go shopping without their husbands!!

[Mushroom]

11. Diabolical n/t

[frebrd]

13. Just another form of religious extremism

In this country, for some unaccountable reason religion is a "sacred cow" (no pun intended), so they get away with whatever they want!

Wish I had the money to satisfy Canada's immmigration requirements.

:(