Completely barmy

[brokenhut]

Muslim medical students get picky:Some Muslim medical students are refusing to attend lectures or answer exam questions on alcohol-related or sexually transmitted diseases because they claim it offends their religious beliefs

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[bassresistance]

There's even worse in that article further down...This weekend, however, it emerged that Sainsbury’s is also allowing its Muslim pharmacists to refuse to sell the morning-after pill to customers. At a Sainsbury’s store in Nottingham, a pharmacist named Ahmed declined to provide the pill to a female reporter posing as a customer. A colleague explained to her that Ahmed did not sell the pill for “ethical reasons”. Boots also permits pharmacists to refuse to sell the pill on ethical grounds.
So, if the only pharmacy you can get to is a Boots or a Sainsbury's, you better hope that the pharmacist doesn't disapprove of your choices.

Anyone refusing to provide medical care to someone because of their own ethical objections should be fired.

Out of a cannon.

INTO THE SUN.

[ex_robhu]

Yep.

I wonder if the outrage from the public will cause a change of policy.

[athena25]

On a practical note, doctors who don't treat alcohol / drugs related or sexually related illnesses and who don't treat women aren't likely to be very busy are they?

[brokenhut]

Ingenious solution, I agree. If we just rephrase the problems of the NHS, from "doctors appointments too short" to "doctors too busy" then this will really help out.

Even better would be to just add, say, 50,000 "virtual" doctors to the books. You can't go see them and they never do on-call or locum work. In fact, they don't even have offices or their names on a front plaque at the surgery. But it really helps to rebalance the "average" time between appointments, doesn't it? :-)

[athena25]

If we added virtual patients then surely we've solved everything?

[ex_robhu]

Package all that up in an application and you can sell it as the successor to the Sims too.

[h2_the_foodie]

i don't so much object to people being picky about whom they treat. Go into private practice and you can do what you like, to which ever people are mug enough to pay you for it. But I'm sorry, if you want to use a protected title, (even an implicitly protected one, like doctor) then you have to toe the line....play by the rules, pass the exams, join the right Royal College, do the Contining Professional Development. You don't get to pick and choose which bits of training you do.

What a lot of bollocks.

at what point do you decide to treat half the population?

[anonymous]

When you decide to become a gynaecologist
EHH