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jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 9 days ago

Tennessee passes law allowing doctors to deny care if it violates their morals

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  • randon31415@lemmy.world
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    On call on Sunday. “Doctor, please help!” “Nope, working on Sunday violates my morals.”

  • boaratio@lemmy.world
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    So can I just not do my job if it violates my morals?

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    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.)

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

      * lights fuse *

      * runs out of the office *

      • MedicsOfAnarchy@lemmy.world
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        Or:

        “Here, put this in your mouth”

        “Whyszit tafte so fummy?”

        " It’s a rectal thermometer"

        • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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          This goes in your mouth, this goes in your ear, this goes in your butt… No, wait… THIS goes in your mouth…

          • Ledericas@lemm.ee
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            and the last one goes in your urethra

          • rusticus@lemm.ee
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            You mean…out the toilet?

        • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world
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          I was hoping it would be penis :(

          • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.world
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            Me every day 😩

    • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Be the change you want to see in the world (in minecraft)

    • Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      9 days ago

      or deny if they are christian or republican registered.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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        “Your chart here says you voted for donnie 3x…I’m sorry that’s a precondition called the real TDS that no one will cover…”

        • Ledericas@lemm.ee
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          you also deny vaccine, promoted anti-vax on your social media pages.-denied.

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    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.

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      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.

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

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      Hippocratic oath, more like hypocritical oath amirite

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      And should be reported immediately. Blasted on the news.

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    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/

    • ramenshaman@lemmy.world
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      How about engineers? Pretty please?

      • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
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        I hear a bunch of European countries are hiring!

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    Applies to insurance companies too. Yikes.

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

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    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.

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      I would be interested to hear your take on the old manga/anime “Monster”.

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

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        … and lawyers.

    • GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world
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      This also implies that the denying doctor is ok with breaking an oath to do no harm.

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      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.

  • SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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    Ah. Healthcare denied to ICE enforcers. I am alright with that.

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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      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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      I like the cut of your jib.

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      They don’t need it if the EMT arrives and they’re dead on sight.

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

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    Any doctor that does this is a shitty fucking doctor.

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

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        What weird morals do optometrists run into?

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          The same as other doctors: bigotry

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            Thankfully my optometrist is colorblind

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

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    Conservatives continue to be garbage

    • catloaf@lemm.ee
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      *regressives

      • PunnyName@lemmy.world
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        Tomato Tomato

        Conservativism rose out of a support for the aristocracy.

        • rusticus@lemm.ee
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          You misspelled confederacy

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            Nope!

            (but they were conservatives)

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Don’t get into the field if you aren’t willing to do the duties.

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      protect and serve

      Cops: lmfao

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        Warren vs DC

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      alot of them fall through the cracks with passing grades, or the state is so desperate for health professionals they will waive somethings.

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

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      Good point.

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    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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      You can swear on the internet, I won’t tell mom.

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        Some instances censor their users’ posts.

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          Is that for real? Why would they do that?

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    “It is immoral to provide health care, because that’s in defiance of God’s will.”

    • Some doctor in Tennessee soon, probably

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