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@jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world • 1 month ago

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

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

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@jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world • 1 month ago
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  • Boomer Humor Doomergod
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    181•1 month ago

    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.)

    • Cyborganism
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      42•1 month ago

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

      * lights fuse *

      * runs out of the office *

      • MedicsOfAnarchy
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        Or:

        “Here, put this in your mouth”

        “Whyszit tafte so fummy?”

        " It’s a rectal thermometer"

        • @jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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          17•1 month ago

          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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            5•1 month ago

            and the last one goes in your urethra

          • @rusticus@lemm.ee
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            4•1 month ago

            You mean…out the toilet?

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

          • Midnight Wolf
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            6•1 month ago

            Me every day 😩

    • @Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      28•1 month ago

      Be the change you want to see in the world (in minecraft)

    • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      14•1 month ago

      or deny if they are christian or republican registered.

      • @CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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        2•1 month ago

        “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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          4•1 month ago

          you also deny vaccine, promoted anti-vax on your social media pages.-denied.

  • Chozo
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    110•1 month ago

    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.

    • @skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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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.

      • @rusticus@lemm.ee
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        Fuck you for blaming doctors. They’re threatened with prison because of medieval maga laws.

    • @Meron35@lemmy.world
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      12•1 month ago

      Hippocratic oath, more like hypocritical oath amirite

    • @PunnyName@lemmy.world
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      2•1 month ago

      And should be reported immediately. Blasted on the news.

  • @wirebeads@lemmy.ca
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    71•1 month ago

    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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        7•1 month ago

        I hear a bunch of European countries are hiring!

  • @jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    50•1 month ago

    Applies to insurance companies too. Yikes.

    • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      3•1 month ago

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

  • @Naich@lemmings.world
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    50•1 month ago

    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.

    • @jnod4@lemmy.ca
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      20•1 month ago

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

      • मुक्त
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        1•1 month ago

        … and lawyers.

    • @GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world
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      4•1 month ago

      This also implies that the denying doctor is ok with breaking an oath to do no harm.

    • @wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
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      I would be interested to hear your take on the old manga/anime “Monster”.

    • @Shanmugha@lemmy.world
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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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    47•1 month ago

    Ah. Healthcare denied to ICE enforcers. I am alright with that.

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍
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      12•1 month ago

      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

    • @PunnyName@lemmy.world
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      They don’t need it if the EMT arrives and they’re dead on sight.

    • @skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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      I like the cut of your jib.

  • @ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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    36•1 month ago

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

  • @MisterOwl@lemmy.world
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    27•1 month ago

    Any doctor that does this is a shitty fucking doctor.

    • @turtlesareneat@discuss.online
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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

      • @joby@programming.dev
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        7•1 month ago

        What weird morals do optometrists run into?

        • @PunnyName@lemmy.world
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          3•1 month ago

          The same as other doctors: bigotry

          • @ToastedRavioli@midwest.social
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            4•1 month ago

            Thankfully my optometrist is colorblind

        • @turtlesareneat@discuss.online
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          2•1 month ago

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

  • @jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    26•1 month ago

    Conservatives continue to be garbage

    • @catloaf@lemm.ee
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      20•1 month ago

      *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

          • @PunnyName@lemmy.world
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            Nope!

            (but they were conservatives)

  • @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    21•1 month ago

    Don’t get into the field if you aren’t willing to do the duties.

    • Midnight Wolf
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      7•1 month ago

      protect and serve

      Cops: lmfao

      • @PunnyName@lemmy.world
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        1•1 month ago

        Warren vs DC

    • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      2•1 month ago

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

  • @RagingRobot@lemmy.world
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    Can they also provide necessary procedures if it is required by their morals?

    • @vorb0te@lemmynsfw.com
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      Good point.

  • @orcrist@lemm.ee
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    deleted by creator

    • @Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world
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      You can swear on the internet, I won’t tell mom.

      • @lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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        Some instances censor their users’ posts.

        • @Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world
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          Is that for real? Why would they do that?

  • @DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world
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    17•1 month ago

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

    • Some doctor in Tennessee soon, probably
  • Phoenixz
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    17•1 month ago

    This is abhorent, but heat me out: part of me kinda likes this. I’d rather know immediately if a doctor doesn’t want to treat me so that I can find one that does want to.

    Can you imagine having darker skin color and being assigned to be treated by a doctor who cosplays KKK in his free time? I can’t imagine he’ll do the right thing, at worst he might outright try to make it worse or kill you. This at least gives you too the knowledge that your doctor will actually want to help you

    Having said that, fuck Tennessee and fuck the united states of America

    • @Raiderkev@lemmy.world
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      “I’d rather know immediately if a doctor doesn’t want to treat me so that I can find one that does want to”

      Kind of hard to do if you’re in the ER with say an ectopic pregnancy in Buttfuck, TN and there’s one doctor on staff and if you’re not treated immediately you die.

      • Phoenixz
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        Well then you’re with an ectopic pregnancy in buttfuck TN and they dont have a doctor in staff, apparently. Maybe that hospital should see that, and then just go and hire an actual doctor

    • मुक्त
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      freedom works well even when it is for the antagonist.

  • @jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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    So racist doctors are protected now?

    • @Zron@lemmy.world
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      So are doctors who won’t morally treat a police officers gunshot wounds.

      I see this being repealed in record time.

      • @AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
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        I wish I was a doctor in Tennessee now, just so I could do shit like this.

        • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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          3•1 month ago

          apparently some red areas are so desperate they are willing to pay for out of state doctors, just to work in the state for few times a week, they can make bank too.

          • @AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
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            Oh sorry I meant I’m not even a doctor, let alone in Tennessee, haha.

            My friend is though and recently got a $500k+ base pay with other incentives offer to go to Indiana - but they said no.

            • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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              yea i heard doctors were earning around that, and more.

    • @EstonianGuy@lemm.ee
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      You dont get to be a conservative and an a qualified doctor, unless you want a doctor who just says the lord shall heal thy wounds and sends you on your way.

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