Posted on 05/17/2007 4:42:40 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Um, I don’t think they do.
In fact, I think many of them get a free ride.
Remember, the U.S. is “Santa” to these people.
If I or a family member was ever admitted to a hospital and “assigned” a Muslim doctor, I would scream bloody hell and insist on another doctor not affiliated with that cult of death.
Bottom Line: "Emergency Rooms" are for "emergencies" but are now often used as walk-in clinics.
This does not mean that foreign physicians, taken as a group, function as well on average in the American medical system as American educated and trained physicans, taken as a group. There also tend to be more language and cultural differences between foreign physicians and American patients than between American-educated physicians and American patients. These sometimes have a negative impact on the physician-patient relationship and on the quality of care - not even considering the small possibility that the foreign physician might be a Muslim coming from a jihadist ideological background.
I know plenty of doctors from Muslim countries. The vast majority of them are here in the US because they wanted to get away from the craphole country they came from. I don’t know any that are practicing Muslims, athough they were born into nominally Muslim families and have Muslim names. Their wives wear Western clothes and they drink alcohol and act like everyone else here. They socialize with Jewish physicians.
As far as this story goes, it looks like there are a lot more Jewish doctors than Muslim doctors named as defendants. The story goes off course very quickly by claiming that “acute abdomen” is an easily diagnosed and treated condition.
Physicians treat people every day with whom they have vast differences in political, religious, and personal opinion. I seriously doubt the truth of this story, although it may be the claim of the plaintiff.
LONG LIVE THE MINUTEMEN! Locked and loaded may be the wave of the future.
Oh, I know exactly what I’m talking about, Wendy. Apparently, though, you are clueless when it comes to this topic.
Here’s a little challenge for you: Choose a koranimal next time you need major surgery, okay? Go on, I dare you.
I don’t think you would get much sympathy from the hospital or the non-muslim physicians.
There’s not much choice in the ER these days..
My pulmonary doctor was a Muslim and he was wonderful. He called me the day after I first went to see him because he was worried about the condition I was in. He was very compassionate and he knew I was a Christian. I loved him.
what a cynic. Maybe the man lives in another city? Maybe he was on vacation? who knows?
When you go to Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, a teaching hospital, most of the doctors you see are foreign. I was always treated well there so I’m not complaining, but there are certainly more foreign doctors around there than white American ones.
Oops, I read it again and found his son WAS there. Sorry.
I think a doc-in-the-box is faster service.
The funny thing is that I didn't start out at the ER. Actually, I had something in my eye (or thought I did) that I hadn't been able to wash out for 3 days, and my co-workers got sick of seeing my blood red eye. So, they sent me to one of those "minute clinic" places, and while I was being "checked in," with my temp and blood pressure being taken, the tech looked at my bp, checked it again, and then got up and hurried out to get the nurse practicioner. The NP came in and told me that I needed to get to an ER right now, and they wanted to send me in an ambulance. I told them that I felt fine and would just drive myself, and the NP said that I could have a stroke or heart attack at any moment, and didn't reccomend it. She made me sign an AMA form, and they called the ER and notified them that I would be right over. They never did look at my eye, and refused to do it. So, I was somewhat spooked about my condition, but when I got to the ER, even though they had all the info, they seemed pretty casual about it, so I just relaxed and waited about 45 minutes before they called my name in the waiting room, and then I waited about 3 hours before the Dr came in to see me (though a nurse did get my temp and bp immediately.)
Mark
It serves a population ranging from bankers and professional athletes to heroin addicts and alcoholics on welfare, as well as a prison population (Northern State) and everyone in between. The people in the area come from all over the world, and the hospital also treats patients brought in from Newark - Liberty airport, a huge port of entry. It’s also a teaching hospital at an accredited university.
Newark might suck. Okay, it does suck. I should know, I worked there, but if you ever need a good doctor, you’d do well with one who did his rotations there.
Nonsense.
Before I believe this to be true I must have more evidence. The author offers nothing substantive, no statements, no witnesses, nothing. She does offer up the fact that the doctor in question graduated from a university in Egypt that also graduated some radicals. This proves nothing. George Bush and John Kerry both graduated from the same school and are most unlike one another.
I am not buying Debbie Schlussel's allegations in this particular case, pending review of more factual details.
That's largely because US government legislation and policy has made the medical profession increasingly unattractive to the pool of the best and brightest young Americans who, just a generation ago, were more likely to pursue a medical career. No longer do you see anywhere near as many physician parents encouraging their sons and daughters to follow in their footsteps, for instance.
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