Doesn't this in some way violate the Hippocratic Oath?

https://news.sky.com/story/nhs-staf...t-or-sexist-patients-under-new-rules-11937175

"Currently, staff can refuse to treat non-critical patients who are verbally aggressive or physically violent towards them. But these protections will extend to any harassment, bullying or discrimination, including homophobic, sexist or racist remarks."

So basically a butthurt snowflake working in the ER could take something you said the wrong way (whilst you might potentially be under some pain/duress, I mean you are in the hospital) and refuse you care because they were triggered by your micro-aggression. Ahhhh, what a time to be alive.



This is the same kind of mental illness that leads libtards into believing that Trump is a shitty president and destroying the country because they don't like his personality, his skin color and think that he's an a-hole...nevermind the economy booming, unemployment at records lows, etc etc

 

UK, not US

 

It certainly is, the socialist NHS

 

Reminds me of my mother. She was 93 at the time. Of course she grew up (in the 1920's) with what today would be called a racist attitude. As an adult she never displayed that attitude (at least to my knowledge) but when the dementia took hold she turned into a different person. When she was in her last days at the hospital she would occasionally let loose with a diatribe. The black nurse she had would just laugh it off, seen it all before. My sisters and I tried to apologize but the nurse was cool. When you're out of your mind there's little control you have and you can't be held accountable. Works for the insane defense in criminal cases. Seems like the right approach to me.

 

So ... healthcare isn’t a “right”, then? I’m so confused.

 

Right. Under new US rules, a healthcare provider can refuse treatment because they think you are gay or trans. Or they have some other belief-based objection to you.

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2019...ing-health-care-entities-and-individuals.html

Or simply because you don't have insurance or they don't think you can pay.

 

Ain’t freedom of association a bitch?

 

I've never been refused care...then again I don't act like an ass when I am seeking help.

 

Hippocratic Oath...hmmm

Oaths have always meant nothing to some, professions be damned. See the Catholic church and the Boy Scouts. To others, oaths come with caveats, either real or made up. So, oath is but a word that needs character to make it truly viable.

 

I think anyone seeking treatment acting like a douche canoe deserves the ‘back of the line’ treatment.
It’s telling that being courteous & kind has to be written policy. Some people really need to be better.

 

But being a douche canoe to a cop investigating a reported B&E is standing up to the man.

Got it.

 

The stories my fiance tells me... shes been cussed at, called racist names, slapped, punched, bit, and just the other day an upset patient threatened to come back and blow the place up. ERs are crazy.

 

Don't get me wrong....if the patient is physically attacking a caregiver and there is a potential for physical injury then sure, I get it. Restrain them, drug them, refuse them care....whatever I don't care. But if you're so feeble that a few words upsets your fragile sensibilities to that much of an extent that you deny them care?

Sticks and stones and all that jazz.....

 

Common courtesy and all that jazz. You have a right to be a jerk and people have a right to respond accordingly.

 

Do you?

 

Indeed

 

I was with a very drunk redneck who flipped an ATV onto his chest. The handlebar cut through his pec, and we were pretty worried he might have internal bleeding in his lungs, broken ribs, etc.

I was the lucky (sober) individual who had to take him to the ER, where he proceeded to call the attending doctor a “sand n......,” and asked the nursing staff “don’t you have any American doctors?”

The doc was perfectly professional, but i believed stitched him up without anesthesia. I wouldn’t have blamed the guy for telling Tom to wait in the parking lot for an “American doctor” to treat him.

Forcing a doctor to treat someone is essentially slavery. An employer can fire you for refusing to treat a patient, but no one can force a doctor to treat an asshole.

 

What does any of this have to do with hippos?