The doctor who is denying care to unvaccinated patients

American Thinker ^ | 3 Nov, 2021 | Pandra Selivanov

[MtnClimber]

She is a reminder that the paranoia about COVID is grossly disproportionate to the risks associated with COVID.

When the Black Death arrived in Avignon, France, a courageous doctor named Guy de Chauliac stayed to care for the sick even as many of his fellow physicians fled the city. He wrote that the plague “was so contagious...that one man caught it from another not just when living nearby but simply by looking at him.... Father would not visit son, nor son, father; charity was dead, and hope prostrate.” The death rate for bubonic plague rose to 50%. The mortality rate for pneumonic plague was 100% and death occurred within the first 24 hours of infection. Dr. de Chauliac didn’t have much to work with in the Middle Ages, but he didn’t run away from the desperately ill patients who needed his help, even as the bodies piled up in the street.

COVID, our modern-day “plague,” wouldn’t even have been noticed in the days of the Black Death. It has a survival rate of between 97% and 99%. Although it can kill persons already afflicted with poor health, for the vast majority it is barely the sniffles.

No self-respecting practitioner of medicine could possibly justify denying care to patients who are not vaccinated against the sniffles. Yet Dr. Linda Marraccini of Miami, Florida, is doing just that—and she was still holding fast to that decision only five weeks ago.

Dr. Marraccini has announced that she will no longer treat patients in person if they are not vaccinated against COVID. Dr. Marraccini claims that she is taking this step because she feels that people who are not vaccinated harm other people.

It’s true that she has patients who are immunocompromised and patients who are undergoing chemotherapy.

[qwerty1234]

>>Qwerty, perhaps you live in a big city where there are unlimited choices of doctors to use. A lot of us don’t.

I don’t, my town has less than 1000 people - my choices are also limited - I need to choose a doctor within the two health systems that are within about a 45 minute drive.

Even within those systems though there is a huge variability - my own doctor refused the vaccine for quite a while and finally got vaccinated about 9 months later than the rest of the staff - when faced with a job loss; other doctors in the same office were first in line and cheerleaders for it; while some went for the religious exemption.

[Wasichu]

Ohio just passed a law allowing doctors, hospitals and insurance companies to do this, refuse to treat.
Meant for the battle against LGBT but how long before it’s used against the non-vaxxed?

[Vaduz]

So much for the oath.