RE: Pediatrician Refuses Treatment of Baby of Lesbian Parents
April 9, 2015 at 9:42 pm
(This post was last modified: April 9, 2015 at 9:43 pm by Heywood.)
(April 9, 2015 at 5:31 pm)abaris Wrote:(April 9, 2015 at 5:27 pm)Heywood Wrote: All it does is create doctors who serve people they do not want to serve. Instead of being focused wholly on the patient in front of them, at least on a subconscious level their mind is still dealing with disgust and anger at being forced to do something they don't want to do.
By letting people serve the people they want to serve you increase the quality of service.
Higher Quality of Service > Preventing Butthurt
You know what? That's the problem. Healthcare isn't a commodity to be sold. At least it shouldn't be. I worked as a medic for several years and if we only cared for the people we liked, every homeless, every drunk would have been left to rot in the gutter. That's why healthcare shouldn't be a commodity. It's not grocery shopping after all.
First, Healthcare is a commodity whether want it to be or not. It is human labor and human labor is a commodity. Would you have done that job for free? If healthcare isn't a commodity to be sold, you should be willing to provide it whenever it is needed without any compensation whatsoever.
Second, declaring Health Care not to be a commodity doesn't refute my point. I'm sure there were plenty of times when you had to provide care to someone who stank....and it was quite difficult to endure. In those times, how much of your brain was focused on dealing with the stink instead of working out how to best provide care? In your situation, as an emergency medic, it is unavoidable.....and you probably had to do it as a condition of your employment.
This situation is quite different. Its not an emergency. It is not a condition of her employment(she may be a partner). There is another doctor right there who is happy to take on the patient so the market is serving this person. So why not let the doctor who wants to see the child....see the child. Why not let the doctor who does not want to see the child refrain?
