Um,
don't want to share too much, but in the 80s I needed medical attention and felt my being gay might have a bearing in the treatment/diagnosis (it's not what you're thinking, this occasion) and did 'come out' to the specialist.
I was still treated, but he was not a happy camper doing it, and everything turned out fine(medically), but it was a very tense time at the office, and for some reason, he took his hostility towards the situation (my impression, but maybe he was a jerk all the time) out on the nurse that was helping.
If a medical practitioner can't put aside his personal angle in regards to treatment, maybe it's best in a nonemergency situation to get a referral to a different physician.
Big picture would be for such individuals with incomplete takes on the Hippocratic Oath to perhaps look for another line of work.
A positive note:
I go to a dental college these days for dental work. The students are all required to treat prisoners as part of their training. I'd like to think that would weed out some problems. Hell, I have done contractor work on jail security systems, and even not being around the incarcerated made my skin crawl the whole time I was there. (part of the anxiety was by the necessity I had to have tools with me that would be dangerous for an inmate to have, and my fear of even a slight miscobobble with the security doors could get the wrong guy in proximity with me and things could go south real fast)
*disclaimer: I had a relative in the facility at the time, so my concerns were somewhat more real than speculative, if you catch my drift . . .
don't want to share too much, but in the 80s I needed medical attention and felt my being gay might have a bearing in the treatment/diagnosis (it's not what you're thinking, this occasion) and did 'come out' to the specialist.
I was still treated, but he was not a happy camper doing it, and everything turned out fine(medically), but it was a very tense time at the office, and for some reason, he took his hostility towards the situation (my impression, but maybe he was a jerk all the time) out on the nurse that was helping.
If a medical practitioner can't put aside his personal angle in regards to treatment, maybe it's best in a nonemergency situation to get a referral to a different physician.
Big picture would be for such individuals with incomplete takes on the Hippocratic Oath to perhaps look for another line of work.
A positive note:
I go to a dental college these days for dental work. The students are all required to treat prisoners as part of their training. I'd like to think that would weed out some problems. Hell, I have done contractor work on jail security systems, and even not being around the incarcerated made my skin crawl the whole time I was there. (part of the anxiety was by the necessity I had to have tools with me that would be dangerous for an inmate to have, and my fear of even a slight miscobobble with the security doors could get the wrong guy in proximity with me and things could go south real fast)
*disclaimer: I had a relative in the facility at the time, so my concerns were somewhat more real than speculative, if you catch my drift . . .
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