Originally posted by popcornbird

That being said, whether you approve of a person's life choices or not, the doctor has no right to reject a patient who needs medical attention no matter what. Maybe some people do make irresponsible choices. That still doesn't give a doctor any right to reject them. Doctors are there to help people. Whether a person is single, married, male, female, whatever.......a person who needs medical attention IS a person who needs medical attention. If a women has a miscarriage, the doctor should be there to help her.....NOT help her based on whether she got pregnant by her husband, boyfriend, or in a rape. The doctor has no right to discriminate, period.
ANY physician can discriminate.

There are docs out there that will not prescribe BCPs or do an abortion if the patient comes to them in a non life threatening situation....

There have been times when I have seen a doctor "step aside" because they had some kind of prejudice.

It's totally different in an emergency situation. A physician is bound by medical ethics to provide care to an injured/ill patient

But there have been the occasions where a doc may bypass a car accident for one reason or another.



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I just have to take this arguement down the political path once more- Now don't read this as a party line....I am pretty ignorant when it comes down to the Constitition, BOR and all the other
important documents that the country is built upon...


I know that there are people who want to blame GWB for every mess we go thru......

(I was starting to get suspicious about the earthquakes around the Indian Ocean.......)

He is the guy in charge but can we look at what gets the money spent here in America??

Before (in the old days, when politics was a gentleman's sport
) The parties worked together to get us ahead...Now it's just vitriol and stupidity that rules the roost.

BOTH PARTIES act like a bunch of spoiled a-holes if THEIR bill doesn't pass intact......it's a personal affront to all those fat, lazy
politicos if there is a line added, deleted or changed in a bill...

No room for negotiation anymore.....and that is what is screwing us up-

Take the healthcare reforms that Hill and Billary were trying to get going...the Republicans weren't gonna go for it unless there were changes, H and B weren't about to change anything so the whole process died.....who do we blame for not being able to compromise in the issue?

It goes back to responsibility.


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Yes, it's a ridiculous amount of money but let's move this into another realm....


Appendectomy,
Uterine Fibroids or menstrual hemorrhaging.
Motor Vehicle accident.


Those are emergency cases that with the exception of the MVA need surgery.

I just don't see anyone sitting on the ground, in front of the building, trying to decide to IF THEY HAVE THE MONEY to go in....

Harder yet to try and figure out if you can afford to take a loved one in because it's gonna be a hell of a bill later on.

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Popcorn,

I just want to tweak you nose a little....

The Health care system in the US is FAR FROM pathetic.

Every few months you get a person that is brought into the U.S. for some specialized type of care....Why?

We do have cutting edge technology here.....

The billing and insurance issues need to be kept separate from the care and diagnostic issues.

Getting a bill from 18.000 dollars don't seem so bad when you realize that in some far flung places on the planet there are still women who do drop dead from blood loss because there are NO FACILITIES to give her a decent chance to live.
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P.s. I have noticed that there is way more sunlight left in the day when I leave work.......That's been going on since Sara and I have been in agreement....