[HELLRAISER II]

When I lived in Florida approximately 15 years ago I seem to remember a certain Dentist (forget his name) that was purposely giving his paitients HIV. This Dentist is/was simply trying to protect himself as well as his patients by not treating someone who is at a higher risk of AIDS. What the hell is wrong with that?

[Buffalo Bob]

The New Butt Order (NBO) marches on...

[JennysCool]

This guy?

[Support Free Republic]

A horse walks into a bar. The bartender comes up and says "Hey pal, what will it be?"

The horse orders a beer.

A few minutes later, John Kerry walks in and sits at the bar. The bartender walks up and says "Hey pal, cheer up. Why the long face?"

I'll stop if you guys will donate and get us over our fundraising goal

[chiefqc]

I wonder where her mouth have been?

[G.Mason]

"Doc" Holiday didn't care for dentistry either.

Perhaps he has another calling?

[The Great RJ]

His mistake was to not treat her in an emergency and THEN send her packing. I know the licensing board will probably disagree with this position, but his practice is his business and he ought to be able to treat or not treat who he wants.

[FourPeas]

Ah and socialism marches on. Dentists have no right to refuse treatment. They can't practice unless a psychiatrist certifies them as sufficiently brainwashed into the religion of the PC god.

Sure the guy was rude. Were a dentist rude to me, I'd go somewhere else. What's so hard about that? If he's rude to enough people, he won't have a practice.

[laweeks]

I should think that she/he/it would just go get another dentist. If she/he/it doesn't care where her mouth goes, then maybe he cares where his hand goes. Why can't they leave their perversions at home?

[tdadams]

I guess in a free country he's free to be a bellicose lout and send his practice down the toilet.

[pogo101]

What'd've been wrong with this woman just changing dentists and, if she wished to do so, also legally bad-mouthing the guy all over the community? The free market is a wonderful thing.

[angkor]

"You don't know what it's like! The discipline – the long hours – the lack of support – in a world that goes on ignoring dental hygiene!!"
Corbin Bernsen as "Dr. Feinstone"

[Dante3]

We had one dentist who turned out to be horrible. We just changed dentists. I certainly would not have trief to force him to treat us. I should have the freedom to choose my dentist and dentists should have freedom to choose their patients.

The type of patients I would avoid like the plague are those who file frivolous lawsuits against anyone.

[clamper1797]

Hey .... removing carpet fibers from between someones teeth is tough work .....

[vetvetdoug]

Unless this was a life threatening emergency or unless he was the only dentist in a geographical area, this guy is getting the shaft from the licensing board. A dentist can pick and choose his clients just like a client can choose a dentist. There is no law against this dentist speaking his beliefs. The New Hampshire board is showing its leftest liberal leanings for suspending this license, we are in a freemarket economy (at least that is what people say)and if the public disagreed with his beliefs, then he will lose business accordingly. I doubt he would lose his business if he refused homosexuals but it is wrong for the state to suspend his license for doing so.

[Cindy]

International Healing Foundation

[GatekeeperBookman]

AIDS, state regulation ( restriction of trade ), a blood-bath of torts, pervasive political correctness-all of this brings one view back to my mind, the strenuous debates over the Civil Rights Bill ( 1964? ). I do recall the Republican majority insisting & voting for passage-but at what an awful cost.

As a young teen, I recall being shaken to the core, watching & listening to Sen. Goldwater & others calmly discuss the willing destruction of our property rights, our freedom of association, an obvious extension of the government's already vast powers-to achieve what we all knew to be simple fairness & equity for what was seen as the underclass, the persons of color so easily discriminated against. Earlier, I had been instructed by my parents as to some obvious flaws of our society, the need to deal with all people in fairness & equity. My parents ( no liberals-quite the opposite ) had, quietly, led by example in large & small ways. I was amazed at being happy to see these changes-to know that a society could freely improve. I knew, watching the debates of the senate, that the goal might instead be achieved with simple condemnation-attitude change via positive example & selective condemnation of those who failed to see the truth... I had, by then, already seen remarkable & subtle changes in society which were moving us toward the proper standard of personal & public behavior-the ball having been put in motion long before by the Warren Court & the public figures of the Civil Rights Movement.

Even at a tender & uninformed age, I knew this Civil Rights Bill was one of several steps in a basic & monumental restructuring of our system. The contract was being altered & gov power so expanded, I was frightened to realize it might be so handily changed. I saw, in a flash, that day on the black & white news tape, the darker future.

This or any dentist, fool or not, is being perfectly logical to avoid anyone he or she chooses-it's still a private office-neither the gov, the ACLU, nor some homosexual interest group paid his share of education costs, his license fees, nor his overhead. Neither will others fund his retirement or, failing to protect himself, his health care. Ditto his patient's exposure(s) from a more careless physician. Anyone in such close proximity to anyone else ( where exposure to bodily fluids may be common ) is a gambler, not to protect themselves & the patient.

Putting aside the merits of this particular case, see how the public, the state & a few of us here, take apart the behavior of anyone who dares take caution, discretion, religious scruples & assert mere personal prerogatives. When people employ the term 'fascist' with reference to the Left, I see why-it certainly fits.

I was so moved by the Civil Rights debates as to pay far more attention to the Constitution. I wonder if anyone else does?