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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-01-10 08:07 PM
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Doctor sends Dem patients away because of Healthcare issue
Mount Dora doctor tells Obama supporters: Go elsewhere
By Stephen Hudak, Orlando Sentinel
7:51 PM EDT, April 1, 2010
MOUNT DORA — A doctor who considers the national health-care overhaul to be bad medicine for the country posted a sign on his office door telling patients who voted for President Barack Obama to seek care "elsewhere."
"I'm not turning anybody away — that would be unethical," Dr. Jack Cassell, 56, a Mount Dora urologist and a registered Republican opposed to the health plan, told the Orlando Sentinel on Thursday. "But if they read the sign and turn the other way, so be it."
The sign reads: "If you voted for Obama…seek urologic care elsewhere. Changes to your healthcare begin right now, not in four years."
Estella Chatman, 67, of Eustis, whose daughter snapped a photo of the typewritten sign, sent the picture to U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, the Orlando Democrat who riled Republicans last year when he characterized the GOP's idea of health care as, "If you get sick America … Die quickly."
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/...
LOL. I'd love to see it sweep the nation.
Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-01-10 08:10 PM
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3. hmm.. is this a malpractice suit in the making?
No you big DUmmy. The Dr. is not legally required to treat you. You can go to the 24 hr. walk in co-op.
no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-01-10 08:12 PM
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6. Wonder if this is a civil rights violation?
See above reply.
bridgit (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-01-10 08:13 PM
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10. Malfeasance - pull his certif, he's no longer able to deliver HC humanistically
What's next? He decides to treat Dems with premeditated, knowingly ill regimes contributing to their deaths - these kinds of RW thoughts are a scourge upon America
Oh nos. A one man death panel.
kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-01-10 08:45 PM
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20. This warrants a formal complaint to the FL Medical Board. Yank the fascist's license.
You forgot the "Contact the media", "Contact your Rep" and "Sent it to Keith" parts.
LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-02-10 01:47 AM
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37. You know what would be really bad for this guy (so you shouldn't do it)?
If scores of people who support health care reform were to schedule new appointments with this guy for months and never show up. That would be a really bad thing to do, and would cost him a lot of money, so don't do it.
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Lord Magus (25 posts) Fri Apr-02-10 01:56 AM
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39. If I lived in the area, I wouldn't hesitate to do that.
He deserves worse.
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XOKCowboy (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-02-10 02:15 AM
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42. Well I certainly wouldn't do that if I lived in the area.
I wouldn't call and make an appointment touting his All American philosophy and then not show up. I also certainly wouldn't encourage all my friends to do the same. That would be really bad.
Someone should send this to the good Dr.
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DUmmmies tried to sabotage a newspaper poll on this subject. Not a good showing for the DUmp. DUAC! DUAC!
otohara (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-02-10 01:49 AM
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Poll Re: Dr. Turning Away Obama Voters Needs DU Love
We can turn this around - not that many people have voted
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8073381
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Ironically, the OP goes by the handle The Backlash Cometh.
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Ironically, the OP goes by the handle The Backlash Cometh.
I noticed that too. :lmao:
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Medicare and Medicaid used to pay for penile implants.....wonder if Obamacare is going to pay for those....or will it be only for the affirmative action cases?
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-02-10 01:47 AM
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37. You know what would be really bad for this guy (so you shouldn't do it)?
If scores of people who support health care reform were to schedule new appointments with this guy for months and never show up. That would be a really bad thing to do, and would cost him a lot of money, so don't do it.
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this is why most doctors require 24 hours notice if you won't make an appointment... and I doubt 0bamacare will pay for missed appointments, so he can charge what he wants, and sue when they don't pay.
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this is why most doctors require 24 hours notice if you won't make an appointment... and I doubt 0bamacare will pay for missed appointments, so he can charge what he wants, and sue when they don't pay.
My company charges everyone who misses/breaks an appointment, and they can't schedule a new appointment until they pay the fee.
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Ironically, the OP goes by the handle The Backlash Cometh.
1st thing I noticed. Oh, the irony.
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Of course this would only work if the good doctor is taking new patients.
Cindie
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The poll's 83% in favor of the physician, 11% middle ground, and the rest against.
Too bad for the primitives.
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The poll's 83% in favor of the physician, 11% middle ground, and the rest against.
Too bad for the primitives.
There's two threads on it at the DUmp, so it's getting noticed. They're losing their ability to DU polls.
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Cassell, who has practiced medicine in GOP-dominated Lake County since 1988, said he doesn't quiz his patients about their politics, but he also won't hide his disdain for the bill Obama signed and the lawmakers who passed it.
Erin VanSickle, spokeswoman for the Florida Medical Association, would not comment specifically.
But she noted in an e-mail to the Sentinel that "physicians are extended the same rights to free speech as every other citizen in the United States."
The outspoken Grayson described Cassell's sign as "ridiculous."
"I'm disgusted," he said. "Maybe he thinks the Hippocratic Oath says, ‘Do no good.' If this is the face of the right wing in America, it's the face of cruelty. … Why don't they change the name of the Republican Party to the Sore Loser Party?"
no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-01-10 08:12 PM
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6. Wonder if this is a civil rights violation?
No DUmmy, political preference is not one of the legally protected categories specified in civil-rights law. Not yet, anyway.
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There's two threads on it at the DUmp, so it's getting noticed. They're losing their ability to DU polls.
That was after about 14,000 votes in the poll; I don't think the primitives can overcome that now.
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(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/kayaktn/doctor-not-in-e1270216933382.jpg)
heh.
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If he has or starts a $5 deposit/cancellation fee for appointments and the DUmmies run with this, he could become a rich man in no time. The DUmmies just don't get the whole "Law of unintended consequences" thing at all.
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That was after about 14,000 votes in the poll; I don't think the primitives can overcome that now.
Why? They have 100,000+ members. (Where's the sarcasm thingy)
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The vote is now 84% good for him, with 18,950 voting, myself being the last. I'm going to go over and read their threads a little later. This issue has been important to me, that of doctors "going Galt."
$5 a cancellation fee? Ours around here are $25 or more. And if you don't pay it, you're banned. They get names, addresses, the whole nine yards. So, the DUmmies can try and do their stupid human trick, but it will only cost them badly-needed Cheeto and pot money. How come they never know these real-life skills?
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Ya know...
...for a bunch of babies that scream for boycotts every 5 minutes they should be happy to have a target so readily ID himself.
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24,000+ votes. 85% say "Good for him". DUAC!!
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24,000+ votes. 85% say "Good for him". DUAC!!
That's a big jump from Karin's 12 o'clock post.
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Ya know...
...for a bunch of babies that scream for boycotts every 5 minutes they should be happy to have a target so readily ID himself.
the doctor wants to be boycotted by DUmmies, whats the problem?
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Prescription for trouble. No matter what you think of the health-care overhaul, doctors should not impose their political views on patients. (2770 responses)
Just to refresh: the doctor said he wasn't turning anyone away, but merely inviting liberals to voluntarily remove themselves. So... how is he "imposing" his views on his patients, again? And how is it liberals, like this Grayson prick, can cry "FASCIST!" while insisting this man's career be ruined and free speech rights be rended assunder?
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depakid (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Apr-01-10 08:12 PM
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9. Good! No one in their right mind should trust a Republican physician
The attitudes, beliefs and values- as well as the character his character are all suspect, and may well lead to substandard care.
Okay. If you ever have to go to the ER with a heart attack or bleeding like a stuck pig, be sure to ask to see the doctor's voter registration card first. If he or she's a Rethug, you can always crawl up the road to the next facility.
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That Depakid is so over the top, I almost think he's a mole. This story has a lot of legs, and I love it.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8071705
LOL. I'd love to see it sweep the nation.
No you big DUmmy. The Dr. is not legally required to treat you. You can go to the 24 hr. walk in co-op.
See above reply.
Oh nos. A one man death panel.
You forgot the "Contact the media", "Contact your Rep" and "Sent it to Keith" parts.
Someone should send this to the good Dr.
I guess these idiots haven't noticed, many Doctors charge you a fee for missing your appointment. Usually at least the equivalent of your co-pay. If he sets aside time to treat you, ( you ignorant slut ), many have to wait for appointments, thus causing many of his patients, pain and suffering they didn't have to endear.
**** you, you ignorant misinformed POS!
ETA:( didn't want to cut and paste the dip shit's rants, Tuck, so I hope you understand who I am referring to. ) lol!
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Okay. If you ever have to go to the ER with a heart attack or bleeding like a stuck pig, be sure to ask to see the doctor's voter registration card first. If he or she's a Rethug, you can always crawl up the road to the next facility.
Ask if s/he got into medical school on a affirmative action scholarship. If so, I want a Dr. who got into school on merit*.
* DU mode. :racist:
BTW. I have never done this.
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The doctor should have been more truthful, more to the point....actually blunt. The DUmmies only understand blunt.
"In the future, all patients that cannot, will not and won't pay their bills because they think they have a "RIGHT" to "FREE" health services paid for by others are instructed to go to the free health clinic down town."
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This from the thread. I brought it over because it was so strange....
jmowreader (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-02-10 01:14 AM
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36. One question springs immediately to mind...
What percentage of a Florida urologist's practice is vasectomy care? Now it seems to me that if ALL the men seeking vasectomies in Florida were Democrats, at least for the 20-30 minutes it takes to get your balls disconnected, and if they all decided to seek out a Democratic surgeon to do them, our friend here might decide that sign wasn't such a good idea after all.
What? That sprang immediately to mind? :mental: :mental: :mental:
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This from the thread. I brought it over because it was so strange....
What? That sprang immediately to mind? :mental: :mental: :mental:
No one in Florida is looking for a vasectomy. Half of them, the real men, don't want one - half the men, the queer ones, don't need one. And the last half, the old men, just wish they needed one.