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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

It's interesting that no one wants to deny medical care for:

  • murderers
  • pedophiles
  • thieves
  • corrupt politicians
[–] rayyy@lemmy.world -1 points 6 days ago

Did they discussed treating an old orange pedophile?

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 315 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I never will understand how somebody gets into any facet of medicine (e.g. nurse, doctor, pharmacist) and find it okay to deny anybody healthcare solely based on how the person lives. Like dude, there are better ways to make money and be a bigot at the same time. Insurance CEO comes to mind. Cannon fodder as well.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 123 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (16 children)

Because nursing school will shove you through even if you should fail and it's an affordable 2 year degree that pays. And that's how I ended up explaining what the P in HIPAA stands for and how to operate a mask. White trash nurses are a meme.

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[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 188 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

The absolute gall they have to call it a "lifestyle" like people choose to live that way one day

It's not a fucking lifestyle, LGBTQ+ people just are and they exist

They don't choose to suddenly be that way one day, they have been that way their entire life and discover that about themselves

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 103 points 1 week ago (3 children)

"Ah, but they choose to act on it! You see, my old preacher struggled with gay thoughts all the time because of Satan. He told us so nearly every Sunday. But did he act on them? No! He was straight, just as god intended.

So those people having gay thoughts are CHOOSING to be gay when they could pray and get a wife and have children like the lord said."

-Some dipshit I know

[–] juliebean@lemmy.zip 79 points 1 week ago (6 children)

"He resisted his homosexual urges, and remained faithful to his heterosexual wife until the very day he shot himself."

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

"You know what I'm talking about; the homosexual fantasies the devil constantly sends into everyone's heads since they became teenagers. Those ones. ... What do you mean 'no'?"

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[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 week ago (3 children)

No this is literally it though. They think being gay is a choice because they’re repressed, and constantly feel tempted. They assume everyone feels that, and only gay people give in.

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[–] dingus@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

Here's the thing, whether or not it's a "lifestyle" shouldn't even enter into the equation. Healthcare workers are supposed to treat everyone the same, regardless of what the patient has done or how they live. If you can't deal with that, don't go into healthcare.

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 147 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

"I refuse to treat left handed people. It's a lifestyle I don't agree with."

[–] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 69 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This was or maybe even still is a thing. My grandpa was forced to wear a sock on his left hand when learning to write as a child. He would be hit if he didn't.

[–] ballgoat@lemmy.zip 44 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Human beings were obviously a terrible idea.

[–] redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago

In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has widely been regarded as a bad move.

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[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 102 points 1 week ago (4 children)

"Is this career path okay with discrimination? Because I have groups I want to die."

[–] Zink@programming.dev 33 points 1 week ago

It is important to consider both sides on any issue. Thank you for keeping things Fair and Balanced.

~/s~

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[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 71 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In many countries it's illegal to refuse treatment so you would literally have to find a new career

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 6 days ago

it's also against their Hippocratic oath.

[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But of course in the Christian-sharia-law state of Tennessee, doctors can refuse patients if they don’t fit their values or whatever. A woman was refused prenatal care because she wasn’t married.

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[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 70 points 1 week ago

What I always find funny about this is, back when I used to do IT, if I refused to do something for someone who had bible verses on their office wall or a cross necklace I would be the one fired.

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 68 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

I mean, this is correct. You take the oath, you have to live up to it. You will be treating people you don't agree with, and you have to square up with that, or your rep will take a dive.

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[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 65 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A friend of mine is a devout Muslim from a very conservative family and a doctor: he believes that his faith has no place in his job and therefore treats all his patients equally.

I think fundamentalists of all religions should take a leaf out of his book.

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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 59 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Someone being LGBT doesn't mean McDonald's is allowed to refuse them service, or ESSO is allowed to refuse to sell them gas, or a gym can refuse them membership. Why the fuck do you think a doctor should be allowed to refuse them treatment for a disease?

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Someone being LGBT doesn’t mean McDonald’s is allowed to refuse them service, or ESSO is allowed to refuse to sell them gas, or a gym can refuse them membership.

Patience, patience ... the GOP is working on this as well.

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[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago (5 children)

This would never fly in today's era. Nor should it.

But about two decades ago I dated a gastroenterologist... I think she had around 13 years of schooling.

Anyways, her first day of med school, they made the entire class watch gay porn. Like vicious, graphic, excessively graphic gay porn.

With of course the professor saying if this makes you uncomfortable, you'd best find a new track. Because you ain't going to make it, this is going to be your life: assholes, boils, pus, cancer, shit, piss, if you're going to be a gastroenterologist you're going to have your head up people's asses your whole career....

Etc

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Wonder if there were any jars involved......that would be a pretty unfortunate situation.

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 50 points 1 week ago (5 children)

And then there were those who got a rock-hard boner and wondered for a completely different reason if this career was for them.

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago

Damn straight. Same thing for pharmacists or any other health official.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago

If medical professionals are punished for refusing to treat patients because of race, then the same goes for refusing to treat someone for "having different lifestyle".

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (4 children)

i dont know who or what to blame but some healthcare professionals are among the most cruel members of society

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[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 41 points 1 week ago

Doctors and nurses see and take care of a lot of disgusting people, or people in disgusting states in all walks of the life. Them being LGBT should be the last hill for them to die on. Only shows how sheltered they have lived.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I have doctors/technicians in the family.

And... WTF.

Do the students know the horrific, gruesome, batshit crazy stuff doctors have to witness and deal with? Not just like objects stuck in orifices, but mentally ill and abusive patients, deathly contagious ones, slow motion tragedy, stuff oozing out of the body you wouldn't believe. Criminal patients, criminal bosses and companies, drama with staff, corporate drama, other fucked up or abusive doctors, drug abuse (from the staff), plenty of sex scandals...

...And their thought is: "Patients that want to rub their genitals on the same sex? Eww. I refuse to deal with that, even professionally."

Wut?

Let's play devil's advocate and say the bigotry is somehow justified (when it's not). Still, how does that even work? Like, an anti-vaxx nurse I know makes at least some sense, by comparison.

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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Excellent. And they can take the pharmacists who have "personal or religious beliefs" and get rid of them too. No one should need to ask some other citizen's personal permission for a service I contracted with my own doctor and medical company.

There are even some drug store cashiers that will refuse to sell condoms. Americans need to learn that if it doesnt affect you personally, its not their place to pretend they are a stakeholder in anyone else's life. Stay in your effing lane, American healthcare workers. No one cares what you dont like or what your personal sky-fairy tells you. Last I heard "freedom of religion" was actually more "freedom from the tyranny of religion" when it was implemented by the nations founders.

While they are at it, Americans should stay out of other peoples bedrooms too. If they arent part of the situation, they don't get a vote. As long as its consensual between two adult humans, its no one elses business what they do in there.

[–] KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz 37 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It is sad that this is apparently considered to be impressive or even noteworthy.

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago

ah yes, i too considered being a doctor so i can feel comfortable in my job. but then i realized when I'm treating a severed limb in an accident trying to stop buckets of blood flowing, that the person might be gay. ew, imagine. so i decided it's not worth it.

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