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  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    12·
    21 小时前

    This is abhorent, but heat me out: part of me kinda likes this. I’d rather know immediately if a doctor doesn’t want to treat me so that I can find one that does want to.

    Can you imagine having darker skin color and being assigned to be treated by a doctor who cosplays KKK in his free time? I can’t imagine he’ll do the right thing, at worst he might outright try to make it worse or kill you. This at least gives you too the knowledge that your doctor will actually want to help you

    Having said that, fuck Tennessee and fuck the united states of America

    • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
      6·
      7 小时前

      “I’d rather know immediately if a doctor doesn’t want to treat me so that I can find one that does want to”

      Kind of hard to do if you’re in the ER with say an ectopic pregnancy in Buttfuck, TN and there’s one doctor on staff and if you’re not treated immediately you die.

  • Naich
    39·
    1 天前

    If your morals compel you to deny care to someone, they are shitty morals, you are a shitty doctor, and you are a shitty human being.

    • Shanmugha@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 小时前

      Mm, nah. First, few remarks to set context:

      -the law is crap, no question about that

      -whole morality concept is also crap as fuck, but let’s say this crap did allow for some people to live longer and/or healthier

      And now for the neat part or why I won’t become a doctor unless forced by some apocalyptic shit: say, you know for sure the patient has caused and/or will cause immense harm and suffering to others (think killers and rapists, for example). Unless you are inhuman, you will doubt whether to help them and thus cause more suffering to other people or let this one die and prevent that, and there is nothing shitty about that.

    • jnod4@lemmy.caEnglish
      14·
      1 天前

      Double edged sword. My morals won’t allow me to treat a Republican

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1744·
    2 天前

    Can’t wait for a gay doctor to deny treatment for a bigot and all their heads explode.

    (They’re heads never actually explode and this bothers me.)

  • orcrist@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    1 天前

    A plain reading of the article suggests that it allows discrimination based on race, skin color, gender, and age. Of course we know that’s the point, doctors don’t want to treat minorities if they are racist pieces of s*** or otherwise bigoted, but what does the statute itself say?

    The Bill of Rights is supposed to protect us against the government, but in some situations it can protect us against other people who are being discriminating f*** faces, but I have no idea what will happen now in Tennessee.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 天前

      it allows them auto deny, things like non-christians, but doctors can refuse to take INSURANCE so doctors have some leverage.

  • Chozo@fedia.io
    102·
    2 天前

    That’s not what the Hippocratic Oath says. I know it’s just smoke and mirrors, but that oath still means something. Any doctor who would disregard it should not be trusted with your health, and should not be practicing medicine at all.

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
      202·
      1 天前

      And yet already, doctors have been letting women in Texas and other states die mid-complex-birth-trouble for fear of losing their license. The moral code of life, at least in America, is long gone in many states.

      • rusticus@lemm.ee
        51·
        20 小时前

        Fuck you for blaming doctors. They’re threatened with prison because of medieval maga laws.