Doctors refusal of patient care

[Vanquisher]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19190916/




The article is very long, but if someone wants to post it here, by all means.

[rainbabies]

i read this a while ago. it is a touchy subject, me thinks.

[Laker]

Dr. Gish is a piece of garbage. One should not be doing rape kits unless willing to prescribe the morning after pill. How embarassing and traumatic for her. The first thing that the doctor should discuss with a woman in this situation, the potential need for the morning after pill. If she wants it, then the religeous doctor needs to recuse him/herself and have another willing physician perform the exam and kit.

This is terrible.

[diggitydot]

Dr. Gish is a piece of garbage. One should not be doing rape kits unless willing to prescribe the morning after pill.

I had the same reaction. What a douche. I totally get that doctors are human and we should have respect for their values when/if they differ from our own. But they should have respect for and not judge those with values different from their own.

Pulling in another physician to prescribe the necessary meds to the rape victim is in no way making him perform an action against his beliefs. Not calling in another physician is withholding the standard of care and inexcusable.

I had the same reaction. What a douche. I totally get that doctors are human and we should have respect for their values when/if they differ from our own. But they should have respect for and not judge those with values different from their own.

ESPECIALLY when the creation of the need for such a pill is due to a rape! C'mon! It's not a night of drunken sex that she wants to make sure doesn't turn into a pregnancy.

[Meenah]

Definitely a hot topic. I wrote a paper on this topic in Grad school, focused on the Pharmacist who refused to fill the prescription written by a physician/Nurse Practitioner/Nurse Midwife..

My opinion: If you have a license to fill a Rx written by a licensed professional, fill it or give up your license. You do not get to pick and choose. I see anyone who walks in my exam room, period. I do not pick, choose or judge, and I expect all of my colleagues to do the same.

If he had such a moral dilemma about prescribing the morning after pill, then by all means, he should have had someone else write the prescription and kept his feelings about it to himself. Geesh!

I went with my friend to an ER so she could get the morning after pill when the condom broke when she and her husband were..uh-hem...anyhow, the people in ER treated her so supsiciously about it. They kept asking if she'd been raped. They were so hesitant about her request to have that pill since she hadn't been raped. They wouldn't give her the pill there but did write a prescription so she could go to the pharmacy to get it.

Doctors and pharmacists must treat and serve their patients without judgement.