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LOL to those of you who think that a doctor can choose to stop treating an established patient without making sure that the patient is under the care of another doctor before you cease treatment.
LOL to those who think a doctor is required to treat a patient..
See I can play the "your ignorant" game also without anything to back it up..
This of course is compounded by the fact that you keep pretending the doctor is refusing to see the patient, which is a lie.. He's asking the patients to choose another location. There is no refusal taking place..
Payments from the government usually does not cover the cost of treatment. Doctors usually lose money on every medicare/medicaid patient. He is objecting to even MORE cuts in these payments. Its not about HIS politics, its about the patients politics who can CHOOSE to go to his office, or another one. If you are his patient on medicaid/medicare, you need to become well aware that it will be increasingly difficult to find a doctor and you may as while fine this out now, because its a CURRENT problem which is only going to get worse..
Yes actually, it is political. Don't know how that is not obvious. And the fact that he puts it right out there? Bizarre. I wonder how you would feel if the doctor you've been going to for years all of a sudden made it known how he feels about the president...let's say it was the president that you voted for & still support. Wouldn't that make you feel slighted? As I said earlier, all of you who are supporting this are pretty much hypocrites, although I'm assuming that, because I also assume that if the shoe were on the other foot as in if it were your doctor advertising that he was against the president you voted for (a republican), there would be a whole lotta hand flailing going on here & please, don't even try to deny it.
For the record, I don't think a doctor should ever announce anything political. I don't care if he's republican, liberal or independent. That should not be disclosed.
I would prefer a doctor keep his personal political, religious, etc, opinions to himself. I'm not there to discuss politics.
In the doctor's defense, though, he might be truly worried about the future of his practice under the new health bill, and just needed to vent that day.
I am not sticking up for or against him. But as a Doctor does he not suppose to uphold the oath he took, when he became a Doctor to treat the sick and injured. But living in this Country, he has the right i guess to treat whom he wants to. I do believe that this is only the beginning, of what we are going to see, this is a backlash to Obama's Bill, we will probably be seeing more Doctors doing this, thank Obama, no one else to blame. As if registered democrats would tell him that they were, but at this point, there is already a hostile enviroment that has been created. I bet this is the start of something new.
Some poeple do not understand that this DR is a Urologist...not a GP.
They can refuse to treat anyone. I am proof.
About 15 yrs ago was treated by a Urologist and after a while was told by his Nurse/receptionist that I could not receive any more from him and was referred to another Urologist. Been a while but seem to recall something about paperwork.
Now...I will have to have the surgery redone in the next couple of months (regrowth) and not a Dr mistake...just a luck of the draw. Actually need two separate surgerys but chances are both will be done the same time since they are close together area wise.
Doctors are already turning down medicare patients...it just hasn't been big on the MSM radar.
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