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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago (1 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] 1 points 3 hours ago

freedom works well even when it is for the antagonist.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 12 hours ago (1 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] 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

... and lawyers.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Applies to insurance companies too. Yikes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 156 points 20 hours 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] 8 points 12 hours ago

or deny if they are christian or republican registered.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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

* lights fuse *

* runs out of the office *

[–] [email protected] 16 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Or:

"Here, put this in your mouth"

"Whyszit tafte so fummy?"

" It's a rectal thermometer"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours 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] 2 points 3 hours ago

You mean..out the toilet?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

and the last one goes in your urethra

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

I like the cut of your jib.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 97 points 20 hours 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] 12 points 14 hours 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] 3 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago

Hippocratic oath, more like hypocritical oath amirite

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 19 hours 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] 9 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

How about engineers? Pretty please?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

I hear a bunch of European countries are hiring!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Any doctor that does this is a shitty fucking doctor.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours 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] 5 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

What weird morals do optometrists run into?

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

My optometrist just showed up on that MAGA businesses's website, so IDK but I bet they have some ideas.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

So racist doctors are protected now?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

I see this being repealed in record time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

apparently some red areas are so desperate they are willing to pay for out of state doctors, just to work in the state for few times a week, they can make bank too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Oh sorry I meant I'm not even a doctor, let alone in Tennessee, haha.

My friend is though and recently got a $500k+ base pay with other incentives offer to go to Indiana - but they said no.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

You dont get to be a conservative and an a qualified doctor, unless you want a doctor who just says the lord shall heal thy wounds and sends you on your way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

No insurance? Oh well, let them die..

[–] [email protected] 24 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Conservatives continue to be garbage

[–] [email protected] 20 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Tomato Tomato

Conservativism rose out of a support for the aristocracy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

You misspelled confederacy

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

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

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 19 hours 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] 12 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours 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] 13 points 20 hours ago

Oh yeah, that should go over super well.

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