RE: Pediatrician Refuses Treatment of Baby of Lesbian Parents
April 7, 2015 at 1:54 am
(This post was last modified: April 7, 2015 at 1:59 am by Heywood.)
(April 6, 2015 at 4:30 pm)Bad Wolf Wrote:(April 6, 2015 at 3:52 pm)Heywood Wrote: If there is a second doctor standing right there to serve the patient, why shouldn't the first have the right to refuse for any reason?
Basically what esquilax said, this is the job. Why should they get paid for not doing their job. Also, what if the second doctor refuses and the third and the fourth and the fifth? What happens when, lets say a really hated person like Hitler is in need of medical assistance or he will die. What happens when everybody refuses to treat him. He dies. Sure, he deserves it, but that isn't how our justice system works and it's a slippery slope. Where do you draw the line?
If the doctor billed for seeing a patient they did not see that would be fraud and the doctor should be prosecuted. If the doctor doesn't bill the doctor doesn't get paid so Esquilax and your concern here is a hollow one. If the doctor is an employee, then it really between the employer and the employee.....even though you progressotard always like to stick your noses in others people business....its really none of your concern.
(April 6, 2015 at 7:50 pm)Brakeman Wrote: I'd bet that the doctor has a business license that permitted him to do business in that county, I bet he had a tax ID a for both state and federal, I'd bet he has business, building, and fire insurance. I'd bet that he has a medical degree from a university. I'd bet that he is probably a member of the AMA and other associations. And lastly, I'd bet that he has lots of business dealings with several suppliers, utilities, and pharmaceutical companies that ALL CHOSE NOT TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST HIM, yet he feels that he should be allowed to discriminate on whatever grounds he chooses.
If only one out of twenty or so of the businesses he must deal with chose to discriminate against him, he would be out of business or at least very inconvenienced. If every business chose something to discriminate against, all commerce would cease. SO it is easy to see why for the common good the nation should not allow discrimination that does not benefit the common welfare.
Private individuals or private companies should be allowed to discriminate against the doctor if they don't like her.
(April 6, 2015 at 11:12 pm)Desert Diva Wrote: If I take a job at McDonald's, I don't get to then whine that I can't cook burgers because I'm a religious vegetarian. Likewise, if a doctor doesn't want to do his or her fucking job and take care of patients, all patients, he went into the wrong field.
There is no law that states doctors have to take care of all patients. Doctors get to pick and choose their patients. McDonalds can refuse service to any customer as long as they are not refusing service because they are a protected class.
