* An angry atheist shows up at a Catholic hospital needing treatment.
* A sexist says he prefers not to have a woman doctor.
* A surgeon realizes that his patient is a suspected pedophile.
Medical ethics for professionals: Does one treat even blasphemers, misogynists, and perverts to the best of one’s abilities?
And the politicized version: If the hospital is government-run and blasphemy, sexism, and perversion are illegal, then …
Prompted by this report on a British hospital.
(Also posted as a forum discussion question at my thinkspot page.)
Dear Stephen Hicks,
IMHO, blasphemers should be treated and, ideally, brought to optimal health and vigour!😎
I discovered you on YT yesterday (watched “The Origin of Slave Morality” — a perspective that goes a long way toward an explanation of why many ‘Western Euopean type’ nations are now allowing themselves to be overrun and destabilised by mainly economic migrants)!👍
Because I also watched you talking to Glen Beck and mention (and presumably being ‘sufficiently’ aware and appreciative of) how humor can be a ‘deceptively unsophisticated symptom/style of coping’ I’m sending you a link to a result of me having had fun defining the (my) ÆPT dogma “ALQholism is the best ‘ism’!”, and much more. 🙂
I looked at the article and I don’t see anything about a sort of list of what would be considered racist or sexist.
My partner is in palliative care right now. One young nurse of Filipino decent reported that an elderly man said he couldn’t understand her (she was wearing a mask) because of her ethnic accent. We’re in Canada and English is the only language this woman speaks.
I would call this more ignorance than racism. And it certainly isn’t grounds to remove him.
On the flip side, my partner who is an ALS patient, was watching a video about women taking over traditional male roles in movies. An hospital worker who brings in the lunch trays asked my partner if he thought women can do anything a man can do, in the context of the video he answered no, on his tablet where he has to type words with an eye tracker.
She pointed at him and called him sexist. A harsh situation for a dying man who can’t speak, (the ye gaze is tiring and slow). So what does one do about racist or sexist staff?
Staff should not tolerate abuse. But being denied treatment doesn’t make the hospital any less judgemental that the person in question.
What’s the solution? A standard of procedures to report abuse of any kind, that would protect the staff and the patient. Although this means more staff and more money.
Jay Leno was accused of racism because he said he doesn’t like Mexican food.
A fellow patient at my partners hospital left for another care unit, that would serve Chinese food. Does this make her racist?