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[–] [email protected] 181 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.)

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"I need to take your température. Here, put this in your mouth. "

* lights fuse *

* runs out of the office *

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Or:

"Here, put this in your mouth"

"Whyszit tafte so fummy?"

" It's a rectal thermometer"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This goes in your mouth, this goes in your ear, this goes in your butt... No, wait... THIS goes in your mouth...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

and the last one goes in your urethra

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

You mean..out the toilet?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was hoping it would be penis :(

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Me every day 😩

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

Be the change you want to see in the world (in minecraft)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

or deny if they are christian or republican registered.

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Hippocratic oath, more like hypocritical oath amirite

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey American Doctors and Nurses, Canada is looking for great physicians to practice and contribute their talents to.

Stop wasting your life and time in fascist America. Canadas fucking fabulous and awesome!!

https://globalnews.ca/news/11076683/doctor-recruitng-b-c-u-s/

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

How about engineers? Pretty please?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I hear a bunch of European countries are hiring!

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

This also implies that the denying doctor is ok with breaking an oath to do no harm.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Applies to insurance companies too. Yikes.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Ah. Healthcare denied to ICE enforcers. I am alright with that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

You're saving them money by automatically denying. Instead, bring them in and tell them to their face you don't serve fascists, then charge them $800

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

It would be hilarious if doctors denied care to everybody who voted for this.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Any doctor that does this is a shitty fucking doctor.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It would violate their professional oaths, and yet, somewhere there's an OB/GYN and an optometrist ready to fucking rumble

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What weird morals do optometrists run into?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Conservatives continue to be garbage

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Tomato Tomato

Conservativism rose out of a support for the aristocracy.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can they also provide necessary procedures if it is required by their morals?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Don’t get into the field if you aren’t willing to do the duties.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

protect and serve

Cops: lmfao

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

"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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

"It is immoral to provide health care, because that's in defiance of God's will."

  • Some doctor in Tennessee soon, probably
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So racist doctors are protected now?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So are doctors who won’t morally treat a police officers gunshot wounds.

I see this being repealed in record time.

[–] AlecSadler 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I wish I was a doctor in Tennessee now, just so I could do shit like this.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Oh yeah, that should go over super well.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hopefully any doctor who does this gets their accreditation or certification suspended. (I think the licenses are a state operation, so that's not going to happen.)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In other words, they'll let lgbtq+ people, people of color, and women die...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

“Only the ones who deserve it.” - Tennessee Republicans

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Though shall not allow a politician to live... Or something like that. Sorry senator I can't treat you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

On call on Sunday. "Doctor, please help!" "Nope, working on Sunday violates my morals."

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