Posted on 08/21/2021 5:09:28 PM PDT by qaz123
Some progressives are cheering on an Alabama doctor who said going forward he will refuse to treat patients who aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19.
Dr. Jason Valentine, a physician at Mobile’s Diagnostic and Medical Clinic Infirmary Health, recently shared he will no longer see patients who aren’t vaccinated against the coronavirus beginning Oct. 1. Valentine said people have no excuse not to be vaccinated against the virus and he doesn’t want to watch people die from it, AL.com reported Tuesday.
“If they asked why, I told them COVID is a miserable way to die and I can’t watch them die like that,” Valentine said. He added that three of his unvaccinated patients had responded to the move by asking him where they could go to get vaccinated: “No conspiracy theories, no excuses. Just where do they go.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
“We do not yet have any great treatments for severe disease, but we do have great prevention with vaccines. Unfortunately, many have declined to take the vaccine, and some end up severely ill or dead,” reads a letter Valentine posted online and will soon send out to his patients. “I cannot and will not force anyone to take the vaccine, but I also cannot continue to watch my patients suffer and die from an eminently preventable disease.”
Same here during Covid. Had to go to doc in box or ER. FOR OVER A DAMNED YEAR!
Weeelll...maybe he knows something we dont...like he’ll have more biz with the vaccinated...
If he’s just talking about patients in his office, he’s within his rights to refuse to treat. In the private office setting, there’s nothing that requires a doctor to accept or treat any patient.
He’s an idiot and a murderer if he is refusing his patients therapeutics for cv19.
He is part of the “health care system,” which is a bureaucracy first, and everything else is secondary.
Bureaucracies exist of, by and for themselves.
He has defined himself to be a bureaucrat.
Nothing more.
I apologize.
Shoot him.
5.56mm
when i look for a physician, i look for one that lays out the prognosis, all the treatment options, critical time frames, each treatment’s pros and cons, and then **asks** the patient what they want to do.
this guy doesn’t seem to fit my bill at least.
How he’s treating patients does little good to help anyway. Find a doctor that provides early treatment. Then sue the hell out of the guy.
Call the doctor refused to see a gay person that has HIV?
Progressives including Michael Medved.
More like the Hypocritic Oath.
There are flakey barely cognizant doctors with a degree and a license after their name. Some of them are a bit crazy. I’ve had to deal with them. This clown should have the luck to treat a patient fully vaccinated who has lambda variant. If m.d. contracts it himself and dies, would that be poetic justice? At least both he and the patient were vaccinated.
No, no, no! We have learned that medical personnel do not have the right to make personal decisions on whom they will treat nor for what. So sayeth our overlords.
Should have said “Well visits only??? I don’t call the plumber when my toilet is working and nor do I go to the doctor when I’m not sick, doofus!”
Chances are good. :)
First do no harm. Unless you can’t control them.
Would this doctor not treat someone who was obese? Or did some other behavior that possibly could affect their health?
Apparently, in summary, the right of a doctor to refuse to care for a patient is actually quite broad. That refusal encompasses objective issues that limit the ability of the doctor to treat properly. It also encompasses purely subjective matters that impede the smooth functioning of the therapeutic relationship. Refusal to treat is subject to the requirements that patients may not be discriminated against, either directly or through a pretext, and that a patient who is already established must not be abandoned, issues that all doctors should bear in mind when denying or ending care.
To be fair, I can understand refusing to treat Manson, or a maniac. But this? Ok...if you say so...
...but this opens up a whole new way of thinking as a consumer of health care. Two can play at this game, pal.
I don't think the good doctor realizes, in his zeal to claim his 15 mins of fame, he may have opened up a Pandora's Box for his profession.
Sometimes, this pandemic has the effect of a receding shoreline exposing all of the garbage the waters hid for years.
I actually said “aren’t you a doctors office?
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