Just what people need. A "Doctor" who puts politics above doctoring. *spit*
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.”
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This guy should lose his license for violating the Hippocratic oath. As a physician this is not even in the realm of being a decent doctor.
That being said, I have treated an awful lot of idiots in my time, and not being vaccinated doesn’t mean I shoudn’t treat you — but it does elevate you to idiot in my book.
So he won’t be treating anybody then because those that are vaccinated don’t need treatment, right?
Things are going to turn violent
Thanks for the info. I went back and re-read parts of the article. The doctor “recently shared he will no longer see patients who aren’t vaccinated,” which means he has been seeing unvaccinated patients all along, and just decided he wasn’t going to do it anymore. I’m assuming he will need to show that by treating those unvaccinated people, they limited his ability to treat properly. And since most doctors have been seeing both vaccinated, and unvaccinated people since this whole thing started without it effecting their ability to treat properly, I doubt he’ll be able to prove his claim. I hope he loses his license.
WHY would anyone want to have a doctor who is an idiot with a medical degree?
C-19 is effectively treated w/common drugs that have been shown to work such that almost all patients treated early recover at home with no other medical intervention.
And how many patients of his are dying from covid, shots or not, from a disease that has a 99.8% survivability rate to begin with? It can't be that many. He either has really bad luck or he's not that good of a doctor. My own doctor says she has only had a half a dozen covid patients and no one has died.
And I think everybody is looking at this in the wrong way, trying to figure out a way he's violating the law or his Hippocratic Oath or medical ethics or whatever.
If he was my doctor, I wouldn't want him as a doctor anymore after bragging to the world he wouldn't treat unvaccinated covid patients.
Instead, I'd be finding me a new doctor. I wouldn't have confidence in him anymore. And for something as personal as your health, I would have to have 100% complete confidence in my doc's decisions.
IOW, walk away from this guy and find someone who will be more concerned about your medical needs instead of his hurt feelings watching covid patients die.
He doesn’t want people to die from it, but won’t help to keep them alive. What happened to the Hippocratic Oath?
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He should lose his license to practice.
this guy took an oath. He should have his medical license revoked.
That’s great if applied in an even, politically neutral way. I just object to the hypocrisy of libs screaming when objective principles like individual self-determination are mucking with one of their shiboleths, like HIV treatment or publicly funded ‘sex changes’ or abortions or pharmacists being forced to dispense abortifacients (or sometimes only able to decline if there are others who are willing). Yet they’re fully willing to rely on those principles when it’s to their advantage.
Exactly. I can’t drive two blocks down the street without some helpful soul advertising that I can get stabbed for ‘free’.
So his story only works if losing the opportunity to get treatment from him specifically is the deciding factor in a huge decision like that. BS, or else he’s bragging about having only irrational poor decision makers for patients, which I wouldn’t advertise if it were me.
That's the bottom line. My doc works for me, and if his logic and his judgment are that bad, he fails the interview to be my health care consultant/advisor.
I agree.
Just what people need. A "Doctor" who puts politics above doctoring. *spit*
In another world, folks would show up to protest, shame, boycott, and anything else you can think of, to force the hospital corporation that he works for to fire him and for the state to remove his license, pending an investigation.
But, or course, knowing what we know, it’s easy to say that he is the poster child for a Leftist doctor that will blindly follow the rules handed down to him by some administrator, that knows nothing but numbers and the bottom line, and enthusiastically will follow the agenda of Fauci, NIH, CDC, and the WHO. All four, having been caught red handed lying about their activities, displaying some next level incompetence and hypocrisy. But, none of that matters.
I’m not saying that the doctors in India aren’t good doctors. But that isn’t the first place that comes to mind if I need some type of treatment or procedure. Well, what did those folks do? In a country that has around a 10% vaccination rate, they virtually stopped COVID in its tracks with a ZIVERDO pack that costs less than $10. From what they’re saying, one province decided to follow the CDC/WHO guidelines, cases spiked and they went back to the ZIVERDO.
Amazing how corrupt and politicized has become in this country. And it isn’t just because of President Donald Trump.
It’s high time for folks to realize that the two sides cannot coexist and some serious talk needs to be had about how to carve up this, once great nation.
He’s giving them till October 1 to find another doctor. I thought that was too lenient but now it seems others find it negligent.
The patients will have to realize that if they find a doctor who treats everyone they may end up in a waiting room full of covid. See how this works? It’s a contagious disease.
And if the Queen had balls, she’d be the King.
And you think he’s being lenient? Does he talk about the different treatments he uses for his patients? Or does he just slam a ventilator in their lungs and wait for them to die, when there are doctors around the world saving folks with about $3 worth of medicine?
And the water has only begun to recede.
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