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Tennessee passes law allowing doctors to deny care if it violates their morals
(www.lgbtqnation.com)
Applies to insurance companies too. Yikes.
this post was submitted on 02 May 2025
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If informed, consenting patients could receive the medications they want without gatekeepers, I might be convinced this is a good thing. I certainly don't think surgeons should be forced to perform acts they feel are immoral.
But, we've set up a system of gatekeepers (yes, for safety) and their collective morality should not prevent me from medicating myself. Until we figure out a (public and patient) safety system for medication that doesn't have gatekeepers AND that system is implemented, doctors should not be able to refuse someone medication without a medical justification.
I also feel that most doctors operate very close to a "public accommodation", so should be affected by the same non-discrimination laws that affect restaurants (even fancy ones where you have to book months in advance). That might not be every doctor, but it should cover enough. In that case treatments, including surgeries, can be avoided on moral grounds, but not denied based on the patient's protected class(es).
Ah. Healthcare denied to ICE enforcers. I am alright with that.
They don't need it if the EMT arrives and they're dead on sight.
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So racist doctors are protected now?
So are doctors who won’t morally treat a police officers gunshot wounds.
I see this being repealed in record time.
I wish I was a doctor in Tennessee now, just so I could do shit like this.
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It would be hilarious if doctors denied care to everybody who voted for this.
Any doctor that does this is a shitty fucking doctor.
It would violate their professional oaths, and yet, somewhere there's an OB/GYN and an optometrist ready to fucking rumble
Though shall not allow a politician to live... Or something like that. Sorry senator I can't treat you.
Hopefully any doctor who does this gets their accreditation or certification suspended. (I think the licenses are a state operation, so that's not going to happen.)
"It is immoral to provide health care, because that's in defiance of God's will."
- Some doctor in Tennessee soon, probably
Hey American Doctors and Nurses, Canada is looking for great physicians to practice and contribute their talents to.
Stop wasting your life and time in fascist America. Canadas fucking fabulous and awesome!!
https://globalnews.ca/news/11076683/doctor-recruitng-b-c-u-s/
Oh yeah, that should go over super well.
That's not what the Hippocratic Oath says. I know it's just smoke and mirrors, but that oath still means something. Any doctor who would disregard it should not be trusted with your health, and should not be practicing medicine at all.
Hippocratic oath, more like hypocritical oath amirite
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Can’t wait for a gay doctor to deny treatment for a bigot and all their heads explode.
(They’re heads never actually explode and this bothers me.)
"I need to take your température. Here, put this in your mouth. "
* lights fuse *
* runs out of the office *
Or:
"Here, put this in your mouth"
"Whyszit tafte so fummy?"
" It's a rectal thermometer"
This goes in your mouth, this goes in your ear, this goes in your butt... No, wait... THIS goes in your mouth...
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I was hoping it would be penis :(
Me every day 😩
Be the change you want to see in the world (in minecraft)
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