Grayson: Florida Doctor Turns Away Obama Supporters with Sign On Door

[Tx4obama]

Run time: 02:07 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=358IQf8I-YE   Posted on YouTube: April 02, 2010 By YouTube Member: congressmangrayson Views on YouTube: 5   Posted on DU: April 02, 2010 By DU Member: Tx4obama Views on DU: 1912

 
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[Bitwit1234]

1. I have to ask?

Isn't that discrimination. And since you have proof, can't he be sued. If I lived in Florida I would sue for all I could get and try to get everyone who he won't serve because they voted for Obama to sue for discrimination also. Bankrupt him.

[AtheistCrusader]

4. He actually said he wouldn't refuse to service anyone

so I don't think you'd be able to get him on discrimination. Now, if he actually refuses to care for people who come in, then possibly, maybe.

If people just read that sign and go away, no.

[MindandSoul]

14. Yes, I understand that! I still believe that his main focus in NOT to be a healer!

[AtheistCrusader]

20. Maybe.

He sounds like someone that is angry, and doesn't understand the difference between an appropriate, and an inappropriate way to express himself.

This reflects poorly upon his character, and his practice, and he will suffer for it. If you were of the same party, would you trust him? Would you go to a doctor who you suspect might give you substandard care if you happen to tread upon any subject the doctor disapproves of?

If I went to a democratic doctor that had a sign on his door saying 'voted for bush, get out', because he or she was mad about the medicare prescription drug benefit, I'd leave. I would not trust that doctor. No one should.

Same for this guy. It's going to hit him right in the wallet, and that IS a language he speaks.

[MindandSoul]

23. I hope you're right! I hope he looses 50% of his patients!

[Poll_Blind]

2. "If you voted for Obama", "If you voted (for the Jew)", "If you voted (for the homosexual)"...

This is of course (no drumroll needed) discrimination.

Is he afraid he's gonna catch Teh Commie if he touches their Librul Tweeters?

Tweeters spread Commonism- that's why the sex parts is red.

I would call him a doof and be done with it but his behavior is actually very serious.

No license to practice for you!

PB

[Danieljay]

5. Shame on him.... We treat EVERYONE at our clinic, and say so in our handbook...

We love our patients, even the hardcore Republicans that come to see us for their care. Health care goes way beyond political affiliation.

Patient Rights: As a patient, you have the right to:

 Be treated as an individual with considerate, respectful, and compassionate care regardless of your age, race, gender, gender expression, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, political ideology, physical disability, or mental disability.

 Be provided with information about your diagnosis, treatment, and expected result.

 Receive information on the planned course of treatment, including an explanation about procedures and costs, as well as on the risks, benefits, available research, and alternatives of your treatment.

 Take an active role in your health care, to make decisions about your plan of care before and during treatment.

 Not participate in a research study related to your treatment. You may decline to participate in or withdraw from a research study at any time. Your refusal to participate will not affect your treatment in any way.

 Have all communications and records pertaining to your care treated as confidential. You have the right to review or obtain a copy of your medical record according to patient policies of Laurelhurst Integrative Health, LLC, and to have your information explained as needed.

 Receive a summarized list of charges for each visit, purchase, or procedure.

 Question the accuracy of your bills and obtain information about those charges.

www.hormonesynergy.com

[Danieljay]

3. The Hippocratic Oath - Respecting the privacy of patients?

I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.

I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.

[kag]

6. If the tables were turned...

Let's say my family doctor put up a sign saying, "If you're a tea partier, or if you did not support Obama in the election, then seek care elsewhere," I would be just as offended as I am by Dr. Cassell. The day my doc starts turning away patients because of their political beliefs--no matter what those beliefs are and even if his are similar to my own--is the day I find a new doctor.

[bliss_eternal]

7. I agree with respondents...

...who've stated they believe this is discrimination. I also agree, it is a violation of his oath (as a physician and medical practitioner). No matter how he acts, placing the sign at all on his door is a problem...something he needs to be held accountable for.

It's the same as the pharmacists that refused to fill women's prescriptions on the basis of it violating the pharmacist's moral beliefs. That's bullshit big time. Medical professionals have to set their personal issues aside when treating patients. If they can't do that, they have no business in the medical field. Period.

[chill_wind]

8. Good for Grayson. Perhaps this guy's practice will be on the receiving end

of the scope by the time Grayson and local Dems get done giving him all the attention he sought and deserves.

[Fridays Child]

9. Maybe another area urologist can let people know that they will be cared for regardless of...

...political ideology. If, as Cassell claims, 99% of his patients agree with him, he shouldn't be too concerned about losing money. 99% my ass. I'd love it if that douche hammer felt the pain of his idiocy, right in his Porsche payment.

[90-percent]

10. bursts....INTO...........SONG!

".......Kiss my aura, Mt. Dora, it's real angora, ..........."


with thanks to a song of my youth, _Dynamoe Hum, by Frank Zappa

[20score]

11. If someone is a lousy human being, then he is more than likely to be a lousy doctor.

Which means it is all the more urgent that he looses his license.

[MindandSoul]

12. That kind of person should never take the oath!!!. .. he obviously is not willing to keep it!

[MindandSoul]

13. I assume this "person" would NEVER consider helping "doctors without border?"

I think he should just continue on that path. . .and see his client base dwindle!

I NEVER trusted a doctor whose main goal was "HOW MUCH CAN I MAKE FROM THIS PERSON'S ILLNESS?"

[szatmar666]

15. I would be very nervous to be in the hands of a doc

for whom politics trumps medicine even if I agreed with him politically because it raises the question immediately: what else is out there that trumps pure medicine?! A payed Conference courtesy of big pharma perhaps?! Or a nice speaking fee selling the latest untested and potentially harmful chemical that he's putting in my body?!

[FoodStamp]

16. Now if someone threw a brick through his window...

Will it be the main story on Fox News?

[Tx4obama]

17. It appears that a HC Reform Implementation Timeline has upset the Doc, here's a link to a copy

Health Reform Implementation Timeline
http://www.kff.org/healthreform/8060.cfm

I don't know if that it is same one he saw, but it does seem to be informative :)

[Tx4obama]

18. And here's another one

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Publications/Other/2010/Timeline-for-Health-Care-Reform-Implementation.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheCommonwealthFund+(The+Commonwealth+Fund)&utm_content=Google+Reader

[scarface2004]

19. hey "doc"... if you didn t vote for obama

you re an effing asshole!!!!!

[Iwillnevergiveup]

21. He's gonna regret this

His nervous laughter already gave him away. Whatta doofus.

[ProgressOnTheMove]

22. It'll be hard for the doctor to redefine somethig illogical.