Is this pissed off doctor turning patients away?

[deepimpact2]

Originally Posted by Kappamd

So, take your own advice.

No, YOU have the problem. YOU need to read ignore if you don't like my posts.

What is so incredibly stupid is the fact that you and others ignore an ENTIRE post only to zero in on ONE statement. You're just LOOKING for drama. Grow up.

To reiterate my point from that post: if a doctor makes patients feel uncomfortable to the point that they feel they should leave, that doctor IS turning patients away.

And it doesn't matter whether he is a specialist or not. He shouldn't create that environment for patients. He has a duty to treat all patients regardless of race, gender, politics, etc.

But he truly doesn't deserve the press he is so desperately courting. That just adds fuel to his fire.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by deepimpact2

But he truly doesn't deserve the press he is so desperately courting. That just adds fuel to his fire.

Which is why I'm extremely amused and entertained by people on both sides of this topic.

[christiangirl]

Okay, am I the only who actually understood with DI was saying with that statement?

Originally Posted by DrPhil

Which is why I'm extremely amused and entertained by people on both sides of this topic.

Hmmm. It was threatening to become Revenge of the Stoopids for awhile there.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by christiangirl

Okay, am I the only who actually understood with DI was saying with that statement?

I understand it but it didn't really need to be said for her to get her point across.

The main idea of it was that she wants to feel comfortable with her doctor, but to preface it like that, everyone misses that idea.

"Being comfortable with your doctor is key. When he/she creates an environment that removes that feeling of comfort and you feel compelled to leave, then essentially they have turned you away." <---- all she needed to say and would have been her strong point.

[Kappamd]

Originally Posted by deepimpact2

No, YOU have the problem. YOU need to read ignore if you don't like my posts.

What is so incredibly stupid is the fact that you and others ignore an ENTIRE post only to zero in on ONE statement. You're just LOOKING for drama. Grow up.

To reiterate my point from that post: if a doctor makes patients feel uncomfortable to the point that they feel they should leave, that doctor IS turning patients away.

And it doesn't matter whether he is a specialist or not. He shouldn't create that environment for patients. He has a duty to treat all patients regardless of race, gender, politics, etc.

But he truly doesn't deserve the press he is so desperately courting. That just adds fuel to his fire.

Sorry, but if you're going to make an comment that to me, as a (GASP) Republican and a future physician, is offensive, I'm going to say something.

Not to even mention other points in your post that have been brought up.

Nobody here is "looking" for drama. YOU create it all on your own. That, just as someone else said, is why some people dislike participating in discussions with you.

[DrPhil]

People don't have to agree with and/or like everything you say/type and how you say/type it.

I think I understood what deepimpact2 was saying. If the doctor is essentially turning people away (based on the limited info that ALL of us have on this doctor's office) then something should be done. However, money, power and respect (what you need in life) MIGHT result in nothing being done other than media attention.

I ignored the "Republican" in her post because ALL political parties are bullshit and it sucks that people feel such party loyalty and sensitivity that they get offended at any mention of Dem, Repub, lib, conserv...and any of that other pointless shit. People need to see the forest through the trees (or whatever the hell).

[deepimpact2]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

People don't have to agree with and/or like everything you say/type and how you say/type it.

I think I understood what deepimpact2 was saying. If the doctor is essentially turning people away (based on the limited info that ALL of us have on this doctor's office) then something should be done. However, money, power and respect (what you need in life) MIGHT result in nothing being done other than media attention.

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That IS what I was saying. I certainly don't knock this man's right to feel whatever way he wants to feel about the healthcare bill. But there are certain times in all professions where you really have to put aside your own opinions and just provide the best service you can and make your customers/clients/patients feel like all those personal things are left at the door.

One thing I expect to see is an offspring of copycats doing this across the country.

[DaemonSeid]

Ran across this today:

The relationship between a doctor and patient is a sacred matter of trust and acceptance. Regardless of the political views we may hold, we doctors are forbidden by our code of ethics to allow those opinions to interfere with how we practice medicine. We must always remember that we do not own the knowledge we use to treat our patients. The knowledge that forms the foundation and body of the practice of Medicine has been collected and passed down over centuries. It is the cumulative work of millions of physicians, chemists, biologists, pharmacologists, scientists, and researchers. It is astonishing arrogance for a doctor to even suggest that he might pick and choose who to help with this most noble legacy of the human mind and heart.

We do not have the right to dispense that knowledge to only those we favor, or to withhold it from those for whom we have a distaste. We must not merely condescend to treat those with whom we disagree. To provide medical care is not a favor, it is an honor and a duty. As a psychiatrist, I have treated people who spat on me, alcoholics who drank away their family's grocery money, psychotics who rub their feces on the walls, and sociopaths who stole pain medication from elderly sufferers of cancer . If I can treat such people without hesitation, and with the same care and concern that I would use treat my own wife and children, then surely, Dr. Cassell, you could find it in your heart to provide care for those who have only conspired with their vote to take a few dollars out of your pocket. Dr. Cassell, you are a disgrace to our honored profession. You should indeed send your patients elsewhere, to a doctor that cares. Meanwhile, you should look for other work.

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