Doctors To Patients: 'We can still get this done because Obamacare's not in place,'...

[BlooInBloo]

All doctors terrorizing patients - a captive audience - should immediately lose their licenses to practice for life.

Do no harm, eh? Fuck them.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/01/some-anti-reform-doctors_n_271453.html

"Some Anti-Reform Doctors Using Scare Tactics On Patients

Kelley McCahill took her 70-year-old mother to see a plastic surgeon about having a cancerous growth removed from her nose last Thursday.

"If not the first sentence, the second sentence out of his mouth was, 'We can still get this done because Obamacare's not in place,'" McCahill told the Huffington Post. She said that the doctor, in a casual and jovial manner, repeatedly bashed President Obama's health care reform agenda during the 15-minute consultation.

"I'm sitting between my mom and the doctor. I look down. I was literally just wanting to melt," said McCahill, 40, who works as a drug counselor in Chattanooga, Tenn. and describes herself as liberal. She bit her tongue. "This is my mom's doctor and I don't want to offend him because her care is in his hands."

Across the country, some doctors are using scare tactics to advocate against health care reform, according to anecdotal reports from Huffington Post readers who were asked to share their experiences. Sometimes it happens right in the middle of examinations, and some doctors whack their patients with the most outrageous claims of reform opponents."

[Joanne98]

1. Who would trust a doctor who LIES!

[DebbieCDC]

2. She should have taken her mother, got up and walked out

Would YOU want the care of your elderly mother in the hands of this idiot? I sure as hell wouldn't.

[Cha]

3. Oh man..too bad she didn't feel the need

to call him on his lies. Assholes think they got their patients between a rock and a hard place..and guess what.

[madmax]

4. I am no longer in awe of doctors.

Will listen, take notes, then research to the best of my ability. Although, they might object - they don't know EVERYTHING.

I asked my GP what she thought about Health Care Reform, she was smart. She knows my politics and my temper ;) She said, 'she had no opinion'.

[skier_]

8. I agree.

More in aw of nurses that actually are there all the time with the patient. I find they are also more supportive of universal health care.

[madmax]

14. They are and they are more compassionate.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[Why Syzygy]

5. I would bet

they are getting talking points from their insurance buddies. They should still be ashamed of themselves. We know the insurance industry isn't.

[LibDemAlways]

6. A doctor in my area recently was quoted as telling a crowd

outside a local health care forum sponsored by the area Democratic club that Obama would deny their elderly mothers cancer care while allowing it for "illegals" - his choice of word, not mine. He knew he was making up shit, but didn't care. Some doctors put profit above everything, and he's apparently one of them.

[Turbineguy]

7. It's always the same.

The best time to do something and make some dough is right-fucking-now. The pretended justification may change.

[redqueen]

9. I agree... if they will lie to patients they lose the right to practice.

WTF is wrong with these people? Ugh.

[Uben]

10. Step-son's doc advocates HCR

He went in to get his back looked at. He has insurance through his job (not that good, tho), and the doc said he was going to give him a steroid shot that would relive the pain, and that maybe once HCR is passed, he can get the surgery he needs. The problem is now, he can't afford to be off work for 4-6 months to recover from the surgery. He climbs towers for a living!

His doctor is looking forward to HCR and thinks things will be much better once passed!

[BlooInBloo]

12. Good to hear about the good ones, too.

[guitar man]

11. If he had said that to me

I would have answered him with two words. "you're fired!" :grr:

[renate]

13. there are some wonderful, caring, dedicated physicians out there

Doing their best to get a single payer plan:

http://www.madashelldoctors.com/