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.
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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.
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.
And the water has only begun to recede.