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To: presidio9

Good for these doctors.

I’ve selected new doctors in the past based on their willingness to provide care that I have strong moral beliefs against... switched obstetrics providers when I found out they perform abortions (rare, but they’re willing.) If I am opposed to euthanasia, I’m going to *want* to seek out medical caregivers similarly opposed. I go to a general practitioner who doesn’t prescribe narcotics, period.

Doctors should be free to live up to the Hippocratic Oath, in which they promise to not procure abortion, or seek to hasten death!


11 posted on 07/07/2009 12:27:03 PM PDT by Missus (We're not trying to overpopulate the world, we're just trying to outnumber the idiots.)
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To: Missus
I go to a general practitioner who doesn’t prescribe narcotics, period.

I don't drink, smoke or do drugs, but I think this is a narrow-minded view. Most of the "narcotic" painkillers abused recreationally today were developed for very specific purposes like easing the suffering of terminal cancer patients. They also have therapudic uses in other areas like burn victims and chronic pain sufferers. That being said, they are, of course, fraudulently perscribed to drug addicts. Doctots who get caught doing so should be barred from practicing medicine. But discriminating against these drugs all together employs the exact same logic as those who seek to outlaw firearms.

14 posted on 07/07/2009 12:39:16 PM PDT by presidio9 ("Don't shoot. Let 'em burn.")
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