7.26.2006

Heinous is as heinous does.

The Raw Story | Rape victim denied morning after pill by PA hospital:
“A Good Samaritan Hospital emergency room doctor refused to give a rape victim a morning-after pill because he said it was against his Mennonite religion,” the (registration-restricted) PennLive.com reported late Tuesday....

“The question is, if you are a physician, do you have to provide services to patients that you think are heinous? And the answer is in this country [is] no, you don't,” Kearns said.
The question is, how do guys like this get licensed to practice medicine?

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2 comments:

...e... said...

no, it's hippocratic, they gotta serve the heinous patients, too.

Ted Compton said...

Well whatever it is, this guy doesn't seem to be doing a very good job at it.