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This would also appear to be in direct violation of the Declaration of Geneva, which is used by the World Medical Association in place of the somewhat vaguely-specified Hippocratic Oath:
I WILL NOT PERMIT considerations of age, disease or disability, creed, ethnic origin, gender, nationality, political affiliation, race, sexual orientation, social standing or any other factor to intervene between my duty and my patient;
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neb:I WILL NOT PERMIT considerations of age, disease or disability, creed, ethnic origin, gender, nationality, political affiliation, race, sexual orientation, social standing or any other factor to intervene between my duty and my patient;
ROTFLMAO...it is done all the time.
Patients who do not pay their bills eventually get letters saying they are no longer patients at that practice.
Patients who are mentally ill/unstable who threaten and abuse staff will eventually get letters
Patients are left to die, we either don't have or can not afford the required treatments
We have cost benefit analysis going on, do we spent $100,000 to keep someone alive for another 12 months, or do we use that money to perform 5 hip operations that will dramatically improve those lives
Does that oath allow them to force treatment onto patients ?
But the reality is also that cultural and a whole pile of other factors can sometimes make useful communication and understanding between the health system and patients difficult. Does the doctor take that as being the patient refusing what they consider sensible treatment ?
A good example of this is people with head injuries are typically loaded into an ambulance feet first, they can control the acceleration, but they may have to brake severely to avoid an accident. Blood rushing to the feet vs the head has different outcomes. Simple, Logical...right ?, But then there is the belief that dead people are carried feet first , so of you try and put some patients feet first into an ambulance you are telling family and the patients they will die. To them it can even look as though their loved one will not be treated as they have already been written off.
People get so wrapped up in their idea of normal, they can not understand why others disagree.
For example, it is common to swear an oath on the bible, but what do you do in a country that has a state religion, eg Islam, do you swear an oath on the Koran ?
An Atheist would chose to make an affirmation as they do not see the sense of swearing an oath to a non existent being.
People are wilfully ignorant of the issues other cultures have that disables them from engaging properly, we blame them, it their fault, and if we happen to benefit from that, so much the better.
What protests were made about that ?, none, the majority were comfortable.
I was the custodial parent, but WINZ "preferred to deal with the mother" when it came to my disabled son. I fought that one because I don't do that kind of BS, others who have been knocked back all their lives would have just walked away.
I get to see medical, jobs, public reaction, etc etc situations for my son. THAT is not great either, he gets dismissed all the time, another situation I will not tolerate. People feel entitled to abuse him, I have even heard "They don't understand so who cares"....yep people are that sh!t
My Step kids are Samoan, we had neighbours coming over questioning why their friends were in the neighbourhood when they came to visit, "Why are you here ?, Are you expected ?, Who are you seeing?", the kids were called Maori all of the time. My response to that casual racism usually involved their sticking their heads in places where the sun don't shine and made me few friends.
When the wife and I were last in Hong Kong, we regularly had shop keepers follow us around the store, not to sell us anything, but to make sure we did not steal anything, we told the kids when we got back to NZ and they just laughed and said that was normal for them.
So yes, there can be good reasons why some bias is needed short term to try and rearrange the balance that should already be there naturally but is not in reality. The time most people REALLY hate discrimination /bias/etc is when its against them, but remain casually dismissive when its against someone else.
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