Free Speech for Doctor
Here I posted my feelings about Dr. Terry Bennett when this story first broke.
A court has ruled “against” the medical board, stating:
Judge Edward Fitzgerald’s June 30 ruling said the Rochester doctor’s constitutional rights to free speech and due process were violated by the board. The judge said the board’s regulations are not drawn narrowly enough to protect free speech, so the board is not entitled to regulate speech at all.
So it took a Court ruling to give this doctor the right to tell his patients when they are sick, or their lifestyle was going to make them sick.
Sad state of affairs when a doctor can’t even “be a doctor” in this “sue everything and everyone that hurt’s my feelings” society we have these days.
(HT: Tongue Tied)
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1Paul
wrote on 9 July 2006 at 9:33
But critiquing a patient’s attractiveness due to an arbitrary, personal standard has nothing to do with medicine.
This isn’t a free speech issue. It’s a hate speech issue.
2Jo
wrote on 9 July 2006 at 9:41
ROFL!!! You are kidding aren’t you? Please .. I doubt the doctor was concerned about how she looked on the outside, rather than what she was doing to herself on the inside.
Geez.
3Trelaina
wrote on 9 July 2006 at 9:55
But critiquing a patient’s attractiveness due to an arbitrary, personal standard has nothing to do with medicine.
Funny, but I never associated weight with attractiveness. What’s one got to do with the other?
Which is “hate speech”:
An educated healthcare professional telling someone that they are at a health risk due to their weight…
Or,
Someone who believes that anyone who is overweight is automatically unattractive, pushing that belief onto a doctor and then accusing them of hate speech for something they never even implied?