[Hot Air] According to both the law and medical ethics, doctors and hospitals are required to treat emergency cases. There is also an expectation that medical professionals will behave... professionally, and not let their personal opinions determine their willingness to treat patients or their level of care.
Of course, nobody can force a doctor to work on a patient in non-emergency situations, but we are now moving into an era where doctors and nurses are allowing their political opinions to influence their work, and in turn undermining the faith of a large fraction of the population that they can safely use the health care system without worrying that some political activist will not treat them, or treat them with the same care with which they would a different patient.
I have written several times before about how politicized medicine has become, and how medical journals and medical schools have ventured into politics, up to the point of promoting the use of politics to determine medical care. The distribution of the COVID vaccine was influenced by race, with minorities being put higher up on the list when the vaccine was scarce than patients with multiple risk factors, and transplant lists have been rejiggered to place some racial minorities higher on the list as a measure of racial "equity."
Cancer patients have been dropped by clinics for holding the "wrong" political views, and Vinay Prasad described his first brush with political medicine when a resident lectured a dying patient on his political views.
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