Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Its Now Okay to Forget the Hippocratic Oath!

The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports that there are now a group of obstetric-gynecologists who are refusing to doctor women who are overweight but otherwise healthy. This causes me to wonder if I can now refuse to let anyone worship in our church who does not have the 'right' sins, oh good people to be sure, they just don't fit our perspective of who the gospel wants to save and help!
Some of the reasons given are because their exam tables and other equipment can't handle people over a certain weight .. now come on, could we at least make an attempt to be credible, although I think in light of the Hippocratic oath this whole issue is being very unethical. So, we have now come to point 'equipment determines who or who doesn't not get medical attention' and we thought Obamacare was so terrible. Another reason was that they were trying to avoid obese patients because they have a higher risk of complications: something going wrong, more risk of getting sued ... everything is more complicated with an obese patient. Now according to this, I'm really frightened because medical attention might be based on not the chances of my survival but the chances a doctor might be sued .... and if his chances of being sued are great, the possibility of my being doctored decreases.
One ob-gyn official said that ultrasound machines aren't as clear with obese women, and make it harder to treat them ... yah, so??? HOwever I'm really puzzled by a statement from the American Medical Association in their evaluation of this situation, 'Physicians can decline service to whomever they choose for any reason - including personality conflicts - as long as it's not discriminatory, i.e. race, gender, sexual orientation or infectious diseases........... my mother didn't birth a genius, but neither did she raise an idiot [contrary to public opinion], some legal beagle somewhere is going to figure out half of those reasons you can't refuse medical treatment were just met by refusing to care for obese women [my guessing is that women do not fit any longer into the category of gender or sexual orientation]. Evidentally the Hippocratic oath is being interpreted as the Hypocratic oath??!

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