healthbolt.net — So you can be self-righteous all you?d like. It?s one of the freedoms that makes this country great. But to claim that you?re refusing to help someone because you follow the teachings of Jesus Christ is like saying that you?re going to volunteer at the Jewish community center because you follow the teachings of Hitler.
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planarianFeb 17, 2007
With regard to the Hippocratic oath, it seems the doctor confused Hippocrates with hypocracy.
offwhiteFeb 17, 2007
Doing what is right has nothing to do with being a Christian. It is doing what the 700 Club and Bill O'Reilly tell you to do. :)
salmonizedFeb 18, 2007
Great....a doctor with borders......hope he doesn't go off to volunteer for the Doctors without Borders...
hplasmFeb 18, 2007
It's the Doc's office- it's all he can afford with the amount of patients he agrees to treat.
cain066Feb 18, 2007
@SlowOnTheUptakeI have no idea what a USA Medical Licence states, you say "In return for this advantage you agree to abide by the rules" if the licence states that he has to treat all-comers to his practice then you have a point, otherwise he broke no rules.IMO you're wrong when you say that a licence DOESN'T say "you're suitably qualified to practice the business that you're setting up". If I have the misfortune of having to go to a doctor, I want to know that said doctor has a recognised medical degree, from a recognised institution and appropriate experience. Since we're in the global village, you can't harbour provincial views that your doctor will naturally have graduated from an American university and have all the recognised experience demanded. This IMO is why licencing exists, not to enforce a sense of Western decorum.
cain066Feb 18, 2007
I don't remember us smokers being mentioned in the Bible ;-) ... being an agnostic I could stand corrected.
cain066Feb 18, 2007
Yes, five of them as I remember.
tracyfmFeb 20, 2007
All I've got to say is - I'm glad I don't live there, I'm glad I didn't take my children to his office because I would have had to change pediatricians. I think it's awful to turn away A SICK CHILD based on a tattoo. I have 2 small children & when they get ear infections, I take them immediately to their doctor. If she turned me away because my hair was funky or my shirt said something that she didn't like - There'd be one more pediatrician out of business, I guarantee.