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[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

Isn't this like a decade old at this point?

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 9 points 8 hours ago

I wish this is how it was at my medical school. My med school is attached to a deeply religious university and some of our professors said some pretty wild shit in lectures. I was almost always the one to key up on the mic in recorded lectures to fight them on it.

I'm sad to say there were a couple lectures that I was just too demoralized to fight back directly, but I did talk to my classmates to correct the record after those lectures.

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 56 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 37 points 14 hours ago (1 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.

[–] iridebikes@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

This type of stuff is extremely concerning to me. My ability to get life saving medical treatment is based on the whimsy of some superficial judgment some random doctor makes about me? There is no way this can be legal.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago

Hey now take comfort in the fact that their lives are in the hands of God. Pfft nah it's in the hands of anyone willing to shank them for being a sanctimonious self righteous profligate. Frankly speaking if someone nearly died or dies because of such a scenario where they denied IDK sutures or some shit for religious reasons they wholly deserve to be processed through a morgue incinerator while still alive.

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 33 points 20 hours 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.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 49 points 22 hours ago (2 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

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

I believe we already have individual states that allow health care providers to refuse care based on their religious beliefs.

So unfortunately, it seems to be flying alright.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 hours ago

Pretty sure they were speaking in reference to the anecdote they were about to relay.

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 45 points 22 hours ago (2 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.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago
[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Lol

Apparently this was not boner porn nor wap porn.

By the retelling, its was nailing balls to a step stool kind of porn.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, I remember that one. 96 was a crazy year!

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Germans itt be like... vanilla ball-nailing pr0n... yawn

[–] KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world -2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

It immediately makes my "Manipulation Sense" tingle. They are making it sound like this is a common or reasonable question from their students. Or that this is some kind of new issue that doctors are dealing with.

So either there really is a new wave of young up-and-coming health professionals who are absolute dogshit morons for even asking this kind of question, or this is being circulated by someone deliberately trying to stir up shit, I just can't figure out which direction they're stirring. (Hint: it doesn't have to have a direction, misinformation and public discourse sabotage consists of just amplifying all the wildest and most extreme takes on both sides of any issue to keep people from wanting to get involved or trust anything at all.)

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day 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.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 98 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world -1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't trust anything about this... meme? I don't know what we call context-less clips of other people's comments that get circulated.

Whatever it is, it is trying to sound positive but it's implying some false narratives. It's implying that this is a common or new issue that professors are always dealing with, that there's some common wave of pushback against treating LGBTQ patients. If you're studying to be a doctor or healthcare professional, most likely you already don't give half a fuck about someone's gender identity or sexuality unless it impacts their treatment. (Yes there are some bigoted healthcare professionals out there, but they're not the norm.)

The narrative here is making it seem like poor, naive students are now suddenly worried about how they're going to deal with all these trans and gay people flooding the healthcare industry.

If it's not subtly trying to introduce a false narrative like this, it's serving that purpose all the same and should be buried and not circulated any further.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 3 points 8 hours ago

As someone who attends a medical school attached to a religious university, I can tell you this is a mindset that exists quite commonly in the medical field. Many of these people get careers in the multitudes of Catholic hospitals that abuse religious freedom laws to deny certain kinds of healthcare and face absolutely no repercussions for their persistent bigotry.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 31 points 1 day ago

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

~/s~

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 295 points 1 day 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 117 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (22 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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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day 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".

[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 178 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 98 points 1 day ago (6 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

[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

As I said to my parents when they said something similar:

Not everyone is a 0 or 6 on the Kinsey scale. Plenty of people have some amount of choice. But not everyone is a 3, either. Most people have a preference. And some people are a 0 or 6. Just because one person with “gay temptations” successfully lived as a heterosexual doesn’t mean everyone can. The world is more complicated than that.

[–] juliebean@lemmy.zip 73 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 145 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 13 hours ago

Stupid sexy Flanders...

[–] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 69 points 1 day 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 day ago (3 children)

Human beings were obviously a terrible idea.

[–] redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 55 points 1 day 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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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 59 points 1 day 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 day 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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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago

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

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day 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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