Religion and Doctors

Some doctors are refusing service for religious reasons. This is unheard of!

It is bad enough that lawyers have made it possible so that contracts don’t mean anything anymore. Because you can always sue to get out of them if you have enough money and a ‘good’ enough lawyer. (Although there is no such thing as a good lawyer when using the term under it’s moral definition.)

Things have gone too far when an insurance company can seek out and find another judge that will give them a favorable ruling because they would have to actually pay out to their policyholders if they had to abide by what the first judge told them. This was made possible because they have enough money and a whole team of ‘good’ lawyers and lobbyists.

Now, the Hippocratic Oath has lost its meaning to a group of doctors who feel they can selectively provide their services to patients based on their own religious beliefs.

Next, the police will withhold assistance to a victim or take a little bit longer to answer an emergency call because they have decided the victim isn’t ‘moral’ enough to deserve their help.

This is the wrong path for medical doctors to take.

Granted there are moral issues that should not have been allowed to become ‘acceptable’ (but it was done for the ‘common good’, like it or not) but this is discrimination, pure and simple. And, again, for the ‘common good’ your religious beliefs need to take a back seat and you need to practice your profession as you have been trained.

Everyone should have the right to practice their religion as they see fit, that is not the issue here.

Atheist groups have been fighting hard to keep religion out of schools, now how about stepping up and fighting this one?

Here’s a sad picture of the U.S. if doctors are allowed this discriminatory practice: the Atheist Doctors Group, or the Jewish Doctors League, or the Non-Denominational Doctors Consortium and let’s go on with Christian Doctors for Jesus. This is absurd!

I don’t think anybody could have imagined that doctors would refuse their services to someone. This just changes the meaning of the term ‘specialist’ to a contemptible new level.

This is clearly an expansion on all that is wrong with the ‘me’ generation. These doctors no longer care about the ‘common good’ or the ‘general health’ of our society. They are placing themselves first, above all others.

We used to believe that doctors reached beyond social barriers and put aside differences in moral beliefs to bring their profession to those in need. That is no longer the case.

These people are making their own choices based on their own beliefs. Just as you are, but the difference is that in the capacity of a medical doctor, you have a moral obligation towards society to care for all of us, not just a select few. Your personal beliefs should not interfere with their right to seek medical attention.

Of course, the ACLU will defend your ‘right’ to make this decision, but they are part of the reason why this country is headed toward ruin by advocating their own version of what is considered ‘right’ without regard to the ‘common good’. (I will expand on this in a future blog). Please, don’t let the medical profession follow suit.

Let’s pander to your religious beliefs, just this once. God made us in his image. He made all of us. By you refusing to aid others you are refusing to accept his decision in placing those people you consider to be ‘immoral’ on this earth. It is the same misguided principle as killing someone based on a religious belief. It is ludicrous and if it wasn’t so heinous it would be laughable. You are placing yourself above God. Just how ‘religious’ do you think you really are?