Posted on 08/07/2023 6:21:51 AM PDT by fwdude
A new Montana law will provide sweeping legal protections to health care practitioners who refuse to prescribe marijuana or participate in procedures and treatments such as abortion, medically assisted death, gender-affirming care, or others that run afoul of their ethical, moral, or religious beliefs or principles.
The law, which goes into effect in October, will gut patients’ ability to take legal action if they believe they didn’t receive proper care due to a conscientious objection by a provider or an institution, such as a hospital.
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Go somewhere else for your baby sacrifice. We don't do that here.
Good question.
Why would a patient want a procedure from a doctor reluctant to provide it, through unfamiliarity, compunctions about safety, or lack of skill in the demanded procedure?
Are these patients literally insane?
Too bad Montana’s not in a more temperate zone...
Temperate, like 100 degree plus Texas?
That might be overshooting the ideal a bit, but yes, more in the right direction.
I want a long growing season and short winter.
Gotcha.
Nothing really grows in Texas during the heat of summer. It's like we have two dormant seasons. Fall gardening is where it's at.
My aunt’s doctor had a sign posted that said he did not prescribe opiates.
“Are these patients literally insane?”
I believe mentally ill is the politically correct term for such patients.
A couple nights ago, I saw a Montana GOP Senatorial candidate on Fox News.
His name is Tim Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL, and he is the most impressive Republican political rookie I have ever seen.
Both he and his wife have a 20 year military background.
They are both Montana natives, and they have built a successful Montana business since retiring from the military.
Montana Senator Jon Tester - a three term fake Conservative Democrat - is up for reelection in 2024.
Tim Sheehy looks like someone who can beat Tester, and like someone who can quickly build a national GOP reputation.
I’ve needed to seek out a new Primary Care provider twice in the past 3 years. The opiates question is the first one I pose to prospective new doctors. I have a variety of fairly serious medical issues for which I have specialist docs, but the Primary is ALWAYS tasked with the pain management issue and no less than 50% of these doctors refuse to write prescriptions for opiates. This idiotic “war on drugs” has done absolutely nothing to solves the drug problem, but it’s left millions of legitimate, chronic pain sufferers turning to illicit (and dangerous) sources to find relief. It’s always the first question I ask when choosing a new doc. My quality of life would be zippity do dah without the pain relief for all my joints destroyed by Rheumatoid Arthritis. It’s getting really hard to find a cooperative and compassionate doctor since Big Daddy government took over health care.
I have written about this subject several times on Free Republic, even though I have never had chronic pain issues.
Ten years ago, the American medical-political establishment suddenly decided that the Sackler family needed to be bankrupted and imprisoned for daring to produce and distribute the opioid pain medication OxyContin.
Then, the medical-political establishment decided that every doctor who prescribed OxyContin should be investigated and also threatened with bankruptcy and prison.
The result...
Illegal drug dealers and users switched to cheaper and more powerful fentanyl, and millions of Americans with chronic pain issues are now compelled to suffer in silence.
bkmk
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