Posted on 12/29/2006 11:11:17 AM PST by Eurotwit
An American woman has been refused treatment by a doctor in Blekinge in southern Sweden because of her nationality. The woman's husband has now reported the incident to the Medical Responsibility Board.
Valery Johansson, who lives in a small town just outside Nashville, Tennessee, was in Sweden to celebrate Christmas with her husband's family.
On Christmas Day, worried that she may have contracted strep throat, she sought medical help. Her husband and niece made an appointment for her at a clinic in the town of Karlshamn.
"We went up there and the nurses were really nice. They did some swab tests, which they then passed on to a doctor," Johansson told The Local.
But when the American woman, accompanied by her husband and niece, went to meet the doctor in his treatment room, he declined to examine her.
Rather than introduce himself, the doctor waved the patient's papers and shouted "she doesn't have strep throat, she doesn't have strep throat". He then added that he would not treat her.
"He said he didn't like Americans," said Johansson.
He also disliked hearing English spoken in his treatment room and soon walked out.
"We just couldn't believe it. We were left standing there with our mouths hanging open," said Johansson.
According to Johansson, the doctor was a Palestinian who objected to American foreign policy in the Middle East.
Her niece followed the doctor into the office to confront him but was told: "I don't deal with people like that".
When Johansson returned to the clinic the following day she was met by a manager, who apologised and encouraged her to report the matter to the Medical Responsibility Board.
The nurses were also embarrassed by the doctor's behaviour and repaid the 820 kronor that Johansson had handed over in advance for her treatment. They too advised her to report the doctor.
In the report Johansson has claimed that she was discriminated against on ethnic grounds.
Before returning to the United States at the beginning of January she also intends reporting the incident to the American Embassy in Stockholm.
He probably would have had no issue with her speaking Arabic.
I don't get it. Really. It's gone completely over my head and I won't be normal until it's resolved.
He could just be a loon.
That's part of the problem ;-)
Oh, he is a loon alright...
I'll bet they rush to take care of the head choppers!
According to Mark Steyn (and others), old Europe is dying. I'm wondering whether this is a bad thing.
Why am I not surprised????? The Swedes have let these people in and will have to deal with them. Wonder if they're having rape problems as Norway reported a couple of weeks ago.
AArrghhhh!!!! I am presuming that the doctor in the story is Moslem. I realize that there are a fair number of Palestinians who are Christian, too. Having said that...
The story is presented as if this is a Swedish problem with Americans. Once I started reading it, though, this is an Arab problem. Perhaps it is also an Islamic problem.
I hate the way the media downplays or ignores the obvious bigotry and xenophobia of the Arab and/or Islamic world. If an American doctor did this to a Palestinian, the headlines would scream about the "hatred" against the Palestinian who obviously could have died and was sick with a near-fatal disease. This situation? The American is "turned away."
Thanks for the rant this morning.
Oh he's a loon alright!
Why would you say that?
What you are seeing in this story is what is taking Europe's place.
Hardly an improvement - by anyones standards...
Cheers.
Bingo!
Stop plagiarizing my work ;-)
Or perhaps it is great minds think alike and all that dance :-)
If by Swede you mean Palestinian.
Sooooooooooo - it wasn't fear of malpractice lawsuit.
Wonder what hippocratic oath he subscribes to?
I feel better!
No, sir, they are not. Aintcha heard? The country is chockful of immigrants - of the non-American variety.
I'm being sarcastic, but clearly, the fact that old Europe is being overrun by Muslims, and may go into eclipse because of it, is due to the likelihood that Europe is culturally and spiritually exhausted. There is no will left in Europe, apparently, and no sense that Europe stands for anything worth defending.
Everyone that is American for miles around that office should make appointments, go and be refused, just to take up time and space....and his money.
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