David Thompson, quoting the Times of London:
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. Some trainee doctors say learning to treat the diseases conflicts with their faith, which states that Muslims should not drink alcohol and rejects sexual promiscuity.
A small number of Muslim medical students have even refused to treat patients of the opposite sex. One male student was prepared to fail his final exams rather than carry out a basic examination of a female patient. The religious objections by students have been confirmed by the British Medical Association (BMA) and General Medical Council (GMC), which both stressed that they did not approve of such actions.
It will intensify the debate sparked last week by the disclosure that Sainsbury’s is permitting Muslim checkout operators to refuse to handle customers’ alcohol purchases on religious grounds. It means other members of staff have to be called over to scan in wine and beer for them at the till.â€Â
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“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.â€Â
Are the same concessions so easily obtained by Catholic doctors or pharmacists, one wonders?
David concludes:
Alas, the article doesn’t explore the arrogance that lies behind an assumption that one can claim a qualification one hasn’t actually earned, or that one is entitled to retain a job one isn’t actually willing to do. But it does, by implication, shed light on practical reasons for the intellectual shortcomings of much of the Islamic world, and their self-inflicted nature.
Next, they will refuse to ring up prepared foods during daylight hours during Ramadan.
There is a certain hajib-wearing Kroger employee who is always pleasant and courteous — more so than I’d tended to expect at that store, in fact — and never flinches from using her own hands to scan alcohol and pork products.
(In fact, the only cashiers who don’t scan everything put in front of them are the under-21 employees, who are prohibited by state law from “selling” beer or wine. Apparently sliding a twelve-pack or bottle across the scanner qualifies, but taking the money for the transaction, not so much.)
“Are the same concessions so easily obtained by Catholic doctors or pharmacists, one wonders?”
It looks like we’re working on fighting the theocracy. Unlike quisling europe.
It is so tiresome to bring this subject up, especially when it is so transparently motivated by your decision to go to war against Iran. No doctors have refused to treat your sexually transmitted disease yet, have they? No? So why are you bedwetting about it? You must be trying to compensate for a small penis!
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The doctor thing doesn’t bother me really. Let them go to school and be whatever kind of doctor they want to be. All med students I think should be a bit more empowered, with the trade-off being that information about their skills and training should be available online from the university in perpetuity. The article says it’s a small number…
The checkout people should be fired though.
Conscientious objector, military: Good
Conscientious objector, medical: Bad
The medical profession has become such a deranged neurotic monolithic priesthood that I think anything that brings a focus on the individual can only kind of help.
The doctor thing doesn’t bother me really.
happyfeet, the problem here is that under the UK socialized health care system (and under the one that Hillary! wants for us) you wouldn’t really have a choice about seeing one of these guys.
You see through my devious plan, SB&P.
Since the taking of the Hippocratic Oath is no longer done I looked at the GMC’s (General Medical Council, see gmc-uk.org) “Duties of a Doctor”…
I guess that one could say that these fanatic’s refusal to plan to adhere to the ‘duties of a doctor’ makes them hypocritical Oafs
as far as I know (which isn’t all that far).
Any doctors care to inform me/us on this?
WE must not impose our culture on them.
Kind of OK if they impose theirs on us, though, right?
Oops.
The real answer is easy, just don’t join a profession whose duties you can’t perform. Or does religion fall under the Disabilities Act now, you just have to have an assistant who can handle the controversial cases, like a cough (cough syrup usually has alcohol).
What a ruse. I think they pull sh*t like this just to see what they can get away with. And our so-called thinking classes fall for it every single time. The shakedown of the West’s clueless naifs continues apace.
Here in the US, could you actually fire someone for refusing to ring up certain foods or alcohol for “religious” reasons? Or are they protected by anti-discrimination laws?
As long as the British are continuing to bend over and spread ’em, Muslims in Great Britain will keep pushing the envelope.
Not to mention the same phenomenon in the US.
The prohibition of female patient seeing male doctor (not to mention vice versa) has been going on for a long time.
Recollect all the Muslim medical personnel with no small amount of doctors caught in last “interrupted” scheme (car bombs) in Britain.
Those medical types, apparently, have minds perfect for indoctrination.
The (original) Hippocratic Oath is not really in use.
You know, Hippocrates, he said something to the effect that no doctor would give an abortive remedy to a female patient.
Last I heard, various (and varying) re-written versions of “the Oath” are still taken upon completion of medical school.
Too few Muslim doctors crash their vehicles and immolate themselves and flail around in direct view of airport security cameras. Until many more Muslim doctors entertain me in such a manner, why should I support their medical practices with my limited health care dollars? Gotta earn my business, dammit.