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My feelings on this are the same as yours. I think this doctor is way out of line. I can't imagine why anyone would trust him with their health in light of this.
It's just not what she was arguing, that's all. She was arguing something else entirely, and she was wrong.
Having said that, I have no disagreement with you on this matter.
Oh -- maybe I misread, I just looked through quickly. But no, look -- "Did you miss the fact that he is creating a hostile treatment environment for patients who voted for Obama? People don't have to disclose how they voted to feel alienated, abandoned, and downright unwelcome. This doctor is a disgrace to his profession."
She also intelligently noted, "The doctor can be charged with abandoment if an established patient walks away because they perceive his sign as a refusal to treat."
She just needed to look up the facts of the situation and look at Grayson's approach to this legally, and post some links for people to read.
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Reason: took out unnecessary observations
The feces hits the fan...the doc don't need your Obama loving entitlement feeling piece o' feces attitude.
If it were all about feelings and wubbies, medical school would be free.
What on earth does that have to do with the care you are receiving from a doctor?
Other than vasectomy, I can't think of any other purely elective procedure you might go to a urologist for. You go to them when you're having a urinary problem. The problem may not be life-threatening, but you certainly don't go to the urologist for entertainment.
"[W]hat he's doing clearly is a violation of the ethics rules that you cited earlier, the Hippocratic Oath, the rules of the AMA and it's at the expense of his patients in care."
"...politics are mentioned in the American Medical Association's Code of Ethics.
"Section 9.012:
"Under no circumstances should physicians allow their differences with patients or their families about political matters to interfere with the delivery of high-quality professional care.'"
The doctor created a hostile treatment environment for his patients who voted for Obama. He disgusts me.
then you have the right not to go to him, and shouldn't. if enough people disagree, it would hurt the doctor financially.
that doctor, though, certainly has every RIGHT to express dissatisfaction with a program that is going to hurt him and the rest of americans financially. if he is willing to lose customers to stand up for what he thinks is right, i say more power to him. what disgusts me is politicians who stick their big noses in somebody's private practice and try to control THEIR behavior.
do the taxpayers have to pay for grayson's suit?
government officials keeps overreaching, and americans are tired of it.
Did he take the Hippocratic oath? I am guessing yes.
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And he can't abandon a patient he has no relationship with.
Existing patients who arent in lockstep with his political beliefs could be made to feel uncomfortable and unable to trust this man, and perhaps they would have reason to.
It always amazes me that patients are allowed to be as abusive and misbehaving as they feel like. I guess people like you perpetuate that behavior.
That's a cheap shot. The professional is always supposed to act like a professional. You can always "dismiss" a patient. We've done it a few times, including once when a patient constantly trash talked the staff.
then you have the right not to go to him, and shouldn't.
that doctor certainly has every right to express dissatisfaction with a program that is going to hurt him and the rest of americans financially. if he is willing to lose customers to stand up for what he thinks is right, i say more power to him. what disgusts me is politicians who stick their big noses in somebody's private practice and try to control THEIR behavior.
do the taxpayers have to pay for grayson's suit?
government keeps overreaching, and americans are tired of it.
Lol, how could "the taxpayers have to pay for grayson's suit"? The doctor does not have the right to express his beliefs on the job when they cause harm to sick people. Not sure what your last sentence means: law is not "government."
please sight me the legal code which says doctors are forced to see individuals, even ones they dont want to take care of?
emtala. Unfunded federal mandate that says you have to do it regardless of ability to pay. It comes with no reiumbursement or legal protection from prosecution.
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