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Doctor tells Obama supporters: Go elsewhere for health care

Wrong. RCP average: 51% to 41% against.

The American public remains evenly divided on whether President Obama's health care plan should be passed, according to the latest Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll.

Forty-six percent of all respondents came out in favor of passing the bill, with 45 percent against it.
 
How does his hippocratic oath preclude him from actively taking part in the political discourse of his country? He isn't harming anyone. He is helpful in telling them there are other urologists to see them.

He's well within his rights and ethics to post that sign, especially since he isn't actually turning anyone away. I think people get a little too upset about tongue in cheek displays of political discourse.

Don't be coy, he is harming any patient who traveled to his office to seek treatment, if they don't follow his radical political viewpoint. If I voted for Obama, I certainly wouldn't trust this guy with my privates.
 
Don't be coy, he is harming any patient who traveled to his office to seek treatment, if they don't follow his radical political viewpoint. If I voted for Obama, I certainly wouldn't trust this guy with my privates.

Well, then, Jallman is even more correct, after all. I certainly think the doctor has done all of his patients a service, conservative and liberal alike. Really, why would any of them want to use such an immature person for their medical care.
 
Don't be coy, he is harming any patient who traveled to his office to seek treatment, if they don't follow his radical political viewpoint. If I voted for Obama, I certainly wouldn't trust this guy with my privates.

I am not being coy. And he is harming no one. And his viewpoint isn't radical; it's actually agreed with by 2/3's of the country.

And since you voted for Obama, I doubt this guy's feelings are hurt by you keeping your privates to yourself.
 
WillRockwell said:
Don't be coy, he is harming any patient who traveled to his office to seek treatment, if they don't follow his radical political viewpoint.

You show me someone who walks into an office with an emergency life-or-death urology issue and I'll support you.
 
Well, then, Jallman is even more correct, after all. I certainly think the doctor has done all of his patients a service, conservative and liberal alike. Really, why would any of them want to use such an immature person for their medical care.

I would use him for my healthcare. Nothing immature at all about his tongue in cheek sign. He even stated, clearly enough for anyone who read the article instead of going "ZOMGWTF, doctor hates OBAMA let's get him", that he isn't actually turning patients away.

Grow up.
 
As a business owner he has a right to do this. As a doctor though he should be ashamed. There are plenty of doctors that do not like the Health Care bill, but none of them have sunk this low.
 
As a business owner he has a right to do this. As a doctor though he should be ashamed. There are plenty of doctors that do not like the Health Care bill, but none of them have sunk this low.

How low? He hasn't actually turned anyone away. Why do you people have a problem with protected free political speech?
 
if dr cassell actually SAYS out loud something so incendiary, how many others are THINKING it...

doctors are gonna be turning away millions

and NOT cuzza their politics

the issue is twenty years old

PHYSICIANS REFUSE MEDICARE PATIENTS - NYTimes.com

and of course it's just as thorny today

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/business/retirementspecial/02health.html

the point---how do you FORCE people to do that which they, y'know, deep inside themselves, don't want to do

this was lenin's problem, as well

he couldn't solve it, either (the dummy)
 
I can believe that. The number is topsy turvy. I'm interested to see where we're at in a year or two from now.

Speakin' of RCP, can you believe this?

Obama's approval rate:

Approve 47.8
Disapprove 45.8

Looks like "The American People" approve of Obama.

Go figure. :roll:
Like you, I'm interested to see where we're at a year or two from now.
 

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How low? He hasn't actually turned anyone away. Why do you people have a problem with protected free political speech?

Well when I first read the sign I first thought that if I were to vote for President Obama I can't see him. So it is sort of in how you read the sign if he is/isn't turning people away. And I have no problem with protected free political speech and that is why I am not against him doing this. But I know a lot of doctors and while they disagree with the bill none of them say don't come see us if you voted for President Obama. Doctors are there to serve patients and I see it has he is saying I don't want you as a patient if you voted for President Obama.

So, like I said as a business owner he has a right to do this, but when it comes to being a professional doctor he crossed a line.
 
Well when I first read the sign I first thought that if I were to vote for President Obama I can't see him. So it is sort of in how you read the sign if he is/isn't turning people away. And I have no problem with protected free political speech and that is why I am not against him doing this. But I know a lot of doctors and while they disagree with the bill none of them say don't come see us if you voted for President Obama. Doctors are there to serve patients and I see it has he is saying I don't want you as a patient if you voted for President Obama.

So, like I said as a business owner he has a right to do this, but when it comes to being a professional doctor he crossed a line.

I just think that's way too serious a look at that sign. It's obviously tongue in cheek because any rational person who looks at that sign immediately knows that he can't possibly know who you voted for since our ballots are secret.

If he had a question on the medical form asking you who you voted for, then he would have crossed a line. But this is just a political point being driven home, albeit in a very cras way.
 
such a teeny little perspective

who cares about dr cassell

the MEANING of this story is NOT about insignificant little doctor

the MEANING of this story is the PLAY of obamacare on private providers across the land

look around, big picture

dr cassell's NOT professional---LOL!

BANNER HEADLINE!
 
That's the beauty of it. If you voted for Obama and went to his office only to see the sign, you would be among the collective intelligence to believe that he could do that. If you somehow got past that, you would be among the collective mentality of someone who would blow it out of proportion, take it personally, get bent out of shape and leave.

We've already seen the proof in this thread when a certain liberal female (who will, of course, remain nameless) threw a whiny dart and left.
 
How low? He hasn't actually turned anyone away. Why do you people have a problem with protected free political speech?

Well now. I guess that depends.

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America. Gotta love it! :doh
 
I just think that's way too serious a look at that sign. It's obviously tongue in cheek because any rational person who looks at that sign immediately knows that he can't possibly know who you voted for since our ballots are secret.

If he had a question on the medical form asking you who you voted for, then he would have crossed a line. But this is just a political point being driven home, albeit in a very cras way.

I agree when I first read it I jumped to the "worst" meaning of the sign. But then after reading it again I realized that. My problem is not everyone will reread the sign and think about it. If he wanted to make a point there are much better and professional ways to handle it. And that is my problem and why I think he fell in his profession is that it was done unprofessionally. If the sign had said something like "We don't support this current health care bill" I would have absolutely no problem with him doing it.
 
That's the beauty of it. If you voted for Obama and went to his office only to see the sign, you would be among the collective intelligence to believe that he could do that. If you somehow got past that, you would be among the collective mentality of someone who would blow it out of proportion, take it personally, get bent out of shape and leave.

We've already seen the proof in this thread when a certain liberal female (who will, of course, remain nameless) threw a whiny dart and left.

You are so right about this: that sign helped make a much bigger point concerning the type of people who voted for Obama and their mindset than it did about the doctor who made it. The hysterics over it are priceless.
 
Jallman, would you go to a doctor that said "gays should seek care elsewhere"? Would you trust your dick to that kind of guy?
 
Jallman, would you go to a doctor that said "gays should seek care elsewhere"? Would you trust your dick to that kind of guy?

Completely different issue and I am not the topic of this debate.

But if a doctor said he didn't want to treat gays, I would totally respect that unless it was a life or death issue. Then I would expect immediate, life saving care until care could be transferred to a more agreeable doctor.

But as I said, totally different issue there than this.
 
big picture: YOU CAN'T EXPAND MEDICARE AND MEDICAID BY 12 MILLION WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY CUTTING THEIR FUNDING HALF A T
 
But as I said, totally different issue there than this.

How is it different? Its exactly the same behavior, putting personal BS over the professional standards of a doctor.
 
How is it different? Its exactly the same behavior, putting personal BS over the professional standards of a doctor.

Because not treating gay patients is not equivalent to making a political statement against Obama and his supporters. Period.

And as I said, it's well within the doctor's right to not take gay patients.
 
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