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Posted on 06/26/2015 6:14:51 PM PDT by RnMomof7
On March 30, a major Harvard-affiliated hospital in Boston, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), expelled a well-respected urologist from its medical staff because he voiced concerns about the unhealthy nature of homosexual behavior and objected to the hospital’s aggressive promotion of “gay pride” activities.
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is a sprawling hospital complex in Boston. |
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People trust the medical profession to protect them – on both the personal and public health levels. But in recent years, a nightmare has taken hold. Now, a medical doctor is being expelled from his hospital for telling the politically-incorrect truth about a serious medical issue. What you are about to read is truly Orwellian.
Dr. Paul Church has been a urologist on the BIDMC staff in Boston for nearly 30 years. He is a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty. He has done research on diagnosing prostate and bladder cancer, and has been a frequent volunteer for medical mission projects in Mexico and Africa. He has also spoken before educational and civic groups on the subject of high-risk sexual behaviors.
Over a decade ago, Dr. Church became concerned about the hospital’s aggressive promotion of and involvement in LGBT activities -- including Boston’s annual “Gay Pride Week” – and its emphatic push for staff participation in them. He felt compelled to speak out.
Through emails to hospital officials and later posting on the hospital’s Intranet system, Dr. Church cited irrefutable medical evidence that high-risk sexual practices common to the LGBT community lead to (among other things) a higher incidence of HIV/AIDS, STD's, hepatitis, parasitic infections, anal cancers, and psychiatric disorders.
Promoting such behavior, he said, is contrary to the higher mission of the healthcare facility to protect the public welfare and encourage healthy lifestyles. Dr. Church also reminded the administration that its staff and employees represent a diversity of moral and religious views, and many believe that homosexuality is unnatural and immoral.
The BIDMC contingent at a "Gay Pride" parade in Boston. [MassResistance photo.]
The hospital did not at any time dispute the truth of his medical statements, nor did they address his other concerns.
They did not claim that Dr. Church ever discussed this with patients, or treated patients any differently if they were involved with these behaviors.
Instead Dr. Church was met with increasingly harsh efforts by the hospital administration to silence and censor him. They told him that his admonitions about homosexual behavior constituted “discrimination and harassment,” were “offensive to BIDMC staff,” and could not be tolerated.
In July 2011, he was called into the Chief of Surgery’s office and told he should consider resigning or else he would face an investigation. He refused to resign. So a few months later a formal “Peer Review Committee” of BIDMC staff physicians was called together to “assess” his “conduct.” He again presented them with the medical facts, which they did not dispute, but ignored. The committee instead sent him a “letter of reprimand” ordering, “You shall have no communications [in any manner, to anyone in the hospital] concerning your opinion about sexual orientation, homosexuality, or other protected status.”
It was an unusual order – that a physician be banned from discussing critical medical facts relating to his expertise, that could affect the health of people the hospital serves.
Dr. Church subsequently requested that the hospital not send any more promotions about LGBT activities to his email or hospital web connection. The hospital refused that request and continued sending them to him. (They rejected the idea that these communications constituted a religious-based harassment of Dr. Church, or the possibility that such a “gag order” was illegal.)
As the emails and postings sent to Dr. Church by the hospital grew more frequent — as BIDMC’s LGBT activities expanded — he again voiced his concerns via a brief posted comment on one occasion in 2013 and twice in 2014.
The hospital reacted with vehemence. In September 2014 a special “Investigating Committee” was assembled to investigate him. “Charges” were brought against him.
But also, over the next few months the Investigating Committee and BIDMC’s president received an outpouring of letters from colleagues, ethicists, public health experts, and others supporting Dr. Church and his advocacy for healthy behaviors. But the committee was not moved by the concerns of Dr. Church or those who wrote letters on his behalf.
In January 2015 the Investigating Committee submitted its findings to the hospital’s highest body and most prominent group, the 25-member Medical Executive Committee, which then met in February to decide on Dr. Church's fate. At the meeting they allowed Dr. Church to read a statement defending himself.
On March 30, 2015, the Medical Executive Committee announced its decision. Dr. Church was informed that because of his “unsolicited views about homosexuality that were offensive to BIDMC Staff,” he was being terminated from the hospital staff. Further, he was told that that his statements on the subject of homosexuality were “inconsistent with the established standards of professional conduct” and constituted a violation of the hospital’s “Discrimination and Harassment Policy.” It was beyond belief.
Read an expanded description and timeline of these events HERE.
According to the hospital’s bylaws, Dr. Church can ask for an appeal hearing, which he has done. It has been scheduled for the end of July. However, it is not a “legal” process per se, but completely run by hospital rules. Dr. Church can at least be accompanied by an attorney, which was not allowed in any of the previous hearings.
Given the way the hospital has handled this so far, the odds of a successful appeal are not good.
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A few scenes from the Boston "Gay Pride" parade:
Sado-masochism - man in high-heel boots with lash leads other man by a leash around his neck, with hands tied behind his back.
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Left: Man in dress - part of "transgender" group.
Right: Hatred of Christianity is a common theme. |
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Dr. Church has essentially done what virtually no one in the pro-family establishment has been willing to do for at least a decade: unflinchingly tell the medical and moral truth about homosexual behavior. In our opinion, that failure is the main reason why we have lost so much ground in the courts, the public forum, and just about everywhere else.
And this is what it’s come to. The insanity of this decision by a major hospital against a respected physician is staggering. It is one thing for the education system, big business, or even government to succumb to the lunacy of “political correctness.” But when the medical profession do so – especially such an irrational and oppressive manner – it is time for all of us to be fearful. Is this the future?
If you do nothing else, make sure that Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center hears from you – and as many others as you can get -- on this. Dr. Church has put his career on the line for all of us. It’s time for us to step up for him.
Contact the president of BIDMC right now. Tell him this is an unacceptable way for a hospital to act. Dr. Church must be reinstated to his position immediately!
Kevin Tabb, MD
President and CEO, BIDMC
Feldberg 230
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: 617-667-4607
Fax: 617-667-3626
ktabb@bidmc.harvard.edu
The pictures did not load.. but an important article on where we are headed as a society
50% have over 100 partners
5% have over ONE THOUSAND.
Welcome to Oceania.
What kind of hell did Newton go through when he said the Earth was round?
Anyone know what kind of hell became the professional life of the poor doctor who invented the idea that GERMS exist?
NO ONE would talk to or pay him, and he died insane.
They SAY he killed himself, but a lot of people think he was murdered.
Do you know what kind of resistance met the inventer of the telephone? They all swore telephones would spread TB “cuz you’re talking DIRECTLY into the ear of the listener”.
They said train travel would be impossible “people wouldn’t be able to breathe, as THE WIND would be so strong at those types of sustained speeds...”
The day after the Wright Brothers flew the NYT was filled with scholarly, scientific accounts of exactly how flight was physically IMPOSSIBLE.
Bump.
Yep-—the Truth is more hated that Lies (Machiavelli).
Socrates was killed for telling the truth-—so was Jesus. Many people had to flee for their lives, like Machiavelli, for telling the Truth.
Why? The Truth is DANGEROUS and IDEAS MATTER. (He who can control the Language, can control the perceptions of the masses (Wittgenstein).
The Lucifereans are creating an irrational “Reality” (of Lies) for our children and it CAN’T be shattered. The Fichteans have to destroy “Free Will” (choice) in our children and make them so irrational they will believe “snow is black” for their “happy slavery”.
Truth will set you Free.
And it’s the same sort of thing with transgenderism. Not only is there never any talk of the destructive mental effects on the soul, but there is never mention of physical effects. I read some in the past and it’s quite a list. Yet children are to be put on drugs/hormones when the lifelong physical effects can’t be good. These people are guinea pigs. We hear all the time how a little coffee, or chocolate, or trans fat, can affect our health, yet not a word on how transsexual treatments can affect them. And then they usually end up alone, too. And from knowing some, I’ll also add that they seem to suffer from an obsession with gender, so that they can hardly be a real person of either gender. They’re nothing like real people of the sex they want to be.
A Supreme Court that can redefine "marriage" can also redefine "liberty."
Are we still at war with Eastasia?
We are all endangered by this. They are attacking from every direction. See my tagline.
“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”
2 Timothy 3:1-5)
The brain wash is massive...
It’s Boston?.. you expected what from Boston.?.
The whole city, most of the State, lives in an alter reality..
Boston has been trippin’ on socialism for many many decades..
actually the entire North-East.. even Maine..
They caught a political disease from Canada..
Poor Canada a political outhouse.. with a few floaters..
A history of right wing gay bashing has probably not helped us. Before you recoil in horror at the implications of what I’m saying, be aware that beating up faggots in the latter 20th century was not primarily a Democratic Party initiative. Conservatives have far too often settled things with their fists and in this case we reap what we have sown. You know in your bones what I’m talking about. Don’t think that the radical left has any monopoly on thuggery. You think the ass kicking we’re getting these days is the fault of someone else? Time to own it. You need to ask yourself what it means to live in the Information Age.
Sad to say, they already destroyed true “Liberty” years ago-—people just don’t understand that we were made into slaves for the elite and their little Malthusian satanists, and their Epstein children’s orgies and sodomite parties at the Bohemian Grove.. We not only pay for the “fun”, we make them filthy wealthy.
Cicero stated that when “Just Law ceases to be Just”, it is just a matter of time before total tyranny. Our “Just Laws” were destroyed in the 50s and 60s. if not before then.
It is just not total slavery yet——but, sad to say, we are almost there in Marx’s “utopia” (hellhole)..
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Fists schmists... you find far more of that on the left. Are you full of Kool Aid?
I’m not going to “recoil in horror”, I’m going to tell you that you’re full of shit.
You don’t speak for WE.
Just sent:
Dear Dr. Tabb:
When the medical community withholds important medical facts about risky behaviors, they become complicit in the diseases and deaths that result.
Patients trust their doctors to tell them the truth. If a patient saw his doctor marching in support of pill-popping and even when he told his doctor about his pill-popping the doctor never told him that he could overdose on the pills he’s popping... the doctor would be responsible for that man’s eventual death by overdose. Substituting the word “risky” for the original word “wicked”, you see what the Founder of the true Beth Israel - “House of Israel” - said about the responsibility to give fair warnings to those in danger:
“Son of man, I have made you a watchman for this house of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. When I say to a (risky) man, ‘You will surely die,’ and you do not warn him or speak out to dissuade him from his (risky) ways in order to save his life, that (risky) man will die for his (risks), and I will hold you accountable for his blood.’” (Ezekiel 3:17-18)
The medical community should concern itself with medical truth and should not blame/fire the messenger when he faithfully speaks the medical truth to people who need to hear it. Saying a patient has cancer is offensive; it could also save someone’s life.Truth sometimes hurts feelings, but lies hurt more than just feelings. As doctors you should understand that. BIDMC’s treatment of Dr. Church leads me to believe the doctors/administrators there don’t even know why people visit their doctor. It’s not so they can feel warm and fuzzy; it’s so they can be kept safe from real medical danger that they trust their doctor to recognize.
My first child died in utero at 42 weeks gestation, possibly because of complications from undiagnosed gestational diabetes. If the doctor had known I had diabetes that could kill my child but refused to tell me because he didn’t want to “judge” my Christmas candy consumption, it would show total contempt for the value of my child’s life - that his/my “uncomfortable” feeling is more important than saving her life.
Please value your patients. Tell them the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. And stop punishing doctors who uphold their oaths.
Thank you.
Everyone of intelligence knew the earth was round since the Ancient Greeks (in the West—not the East). Newton wrote more on Theology than he did on Science and he delighted in the Design and the Laws of Nature and knew he could prove that there is a God because of that Intelligent Design. Without Design, there is no Science possible.
But you are correct——Science and Knowledge when faced with a paradigm shift-——is usually ALWAYS rejected at first. It is called Normal Science.
People can not easily discard their conceptions of Reality. It is a struggle.
That is how cognitive dissonance works and is why the brainwashing of our children in the Prussian public schools is so effective——children will actually believe Lies that are repeated OVER AND OVER and it will be nearly IMPOSSIBLE to get them to see the Truth since emotions are embedded with the Lies.
Why? Because the ideas are planted at young emotional years (irrational) and those emotions take over Reason when Truth is exposed. No Reason because they weren’t given Classical Education and they were sexualized so everything is EMOTIONS——creates great emotional stress when ideas don’t easily fit together -—and so the resulting anger makes people shut down all debate- and they “feel” what is true and they NEVER want to go against what the Pop Culture says is “truth” because they will be alienated and demeaned and excluded. After all, they are “herd” animals and have been trained to fit in and be a group thinker so they are “liked” and “feel” popular.
Weren't also they a bunch of screaming faggots?
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