Health care workers who want to refuse to treat patients because of religious or moral beliefs will have a new defender in the Trump administration.Let's not forget that those so-called "religiously moral" medicos would have denied service to Trump's mentor, Roy Cohn, because he was (a) Jewish, (b) gay; and (c) had AIDS.
The top civil rights official at the Department of Health and Human Services is creating the Division of Conscience and Religious Freedom to protect doctors, nurses and other health care workers who refuse to take part in procedures like abortion or treat certain people because of moral or religious objections.
So now, under President Stable Genius, all one has to do to be able to discriminate is claim religion or moral grounds.
Seems to me that was a tactic under the old Jim Crow era.
I'd snark more, but I have to go.
So, move to California.
ReplyDeleteThat really sounds a lot like what Jesus taught his followers to do, doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteAnd California is an option, or at least Oakland is. We have Highland Hospital, which, as the county hospital, is the "resource of the last resort" for people who have no other options. There are signs there welcoming immigrants and various religions, and while sometimes the wait can be long, the care is state of the art.
My primary care doctor is there, I get my medicine from the pharmacy there for $1.20 a script, and I had my cataract surgery there in 2015 that took me from blindness to 20/25 in my right eye and 20/40 in my left.
There's a movie about the place called "The Waiting Room" that was made by my speech pathologist's husband, Peter Nicks, and it shows the kind of stuff that goes on there on an average day, complete with ethical considerations about not turning away patients who show up a lot under dubious circumstances, treating patients who are loud and combative but need help, and the way they have to help with the financial considerations of the uninsured.
In short, they do their damn jobs, and they do them well.
You know, the thing Fergus' administration just said they don't have to do if they don't want to. They want to anyway, and I admire them as human beings for it.
-Doug in Oakland
Tewshooz, read the Hippocratic Oath and explain to me where the asterisk goes! You know, the one that says “* unless I don’t like the person or their behavior”. Must be like the one after Jesus says “love the sinner*”, right?
ReplyDeletePersia fell because of religion. Then there's Maureen Dowd's Dear Donald letter.
ReplyDeletedin- SFGH is much the same.
ReplyDeleteI'm waiting for the first time someone is refused because Islam.
Any provisions for us "health care consumers" to get a list of these Doctors so we are able to boycott them and their institutions (if possible)? I don't want one of these Nazis treating me if they feel it is their privilege to deny care to others.
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