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Originally Posted by Tannhauser
Did you miss the fact that this is taking place in the U.K. (From The Daily Mail, U.K.) where doctors don't have the choice of screening patients for pre-surgery HIV/AIDS because medicine is socialized? Further, doctors don't have the right to choose who they do and don't operate on without losing their jobs and/or licenses?
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Of course I didn't miss that. Do you honestly think that in the U.K. doctors have to throw their medical judgment out the window and operate on everyone regardless of the risk? If a patient is doing something that makes them an unacceptable risk for surgery, and/or can easily do something to reduce their risk, the doctor can refuse to do the surgery unless it's an emergency. No different than the smoking example, except that the smoking example is a system-wide policy.
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Please at least actually read the dateline of the original story and join the debate rather than trying to twist the original story into what you wish it said and calling every post you disagree with "hysterical".
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Cute. I don't think your post was hysterical because I disagreed with it. I've disagreed with all sorts of posters and still respected them and what they had to say. It's the tone of your writing, and your regular content-free rants against liberals that sound hysterical.
For example, compare Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore. They're both vocal opponents of the Bush administration and the war in Iraq, but Chomsky does it in a reasonable intellectual way, and Michael Moore rants and raves. You can disagree with everything both of them say while still recognizing that Chomsky has more credibility and intellectual vigor than Moore.
06-08-2007, 03:58 PM
