RE: Official live update of spread of COVID19
September 8, 2021 at 6:09 am
(This post was last modified: September 8, 2021 at 6:33 am by brewer.)
(September 7, 2021 at 9:36 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: I just read it now and it's still bad. Patients can have a hard time finding a new doctor, and not all appointments can take place over the phone. People need to get physicals and there are many other times a phone call will not do. Why aren't other doctors jumping on this bandwagon with her? Do they just not give a darn about their patients and they want to see them all infected? Or are they doing what they signed up to do? To help people who need that help. When you go to a doctors office, your temperature is taken and you are given covid screening questions to answer. That is plenty enough imo. There's a reason doctors aren't all jumping on the bandwagon with her nonsense. She's being overly cautious and turning patients away in doing so, and I think that's wrong.
Edit- And Fireball did post, "Don't come to my hospital". That is pretty bad. Does he not want an unvaccinated person to be allowed to show up at the emergency room? That's pretty awful. Let them die?
The doctor is telling her patients to get vaccinated. She prescribing a medical preventative to avoid infection. Those patients who do not follow her care recommendations can find other physicians who don't care if their patients become infected. The patients that don't get vaccinated are the ones that don't "give a darn".
Doctors stop seeing patients all the time when the patients don't follow their instructions. The diabetic that won't take their insulin, the COPD patient won't try to stop smoking, the cancer patient that won't take chemo, the position for the doctor becomes "there is nothing more that I can do for you". This isn't exactly the same, but close enough and definitely not nonsense. And all she's doing is extending that with "and don't come to my office anymore".
Think of the anti-vaxxers as a new twist on factitious disorder or hypochondriac. Instead of claiming they have a condition that does not exist they claim that a proven medication does not work/is dangerous or the virus is fake or can't cause morbidity/mortality.
Regarding the 'bandwagon', is quite possible that other doctors are do it, just not publicly. If I recall correctly, doctors were doing it in California around the time of the measles outbreak. Don't want to give your kid the vaccination, find another provider: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/15/health/pe...index.html
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.