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Mass. Hospital Warns It Could Deny Care to Patients Who Use Anti-Woke Language 'Words or actions that are disrespectful, racist, discriminatory, hostile or harassing are not welcome and will not be tolerated....'
headlineusa.com ^ | January 19, 2024 | Contributing Author

Posted on 01/25/2024 9:54:30 AM PST by daniel1212

The video from Milford Regional Medical Center’s website features Peter Smulowitz, the hospital’s chief medical officer, announcing that the hospital will be implementing a new code of conduct to guarantee an “inclusive” environment...“Words or actions that are disrespectful, racist, discriminatory, hostile or harassing are not welcome and will not be tolerated.”

including:

After garnering unwanted media attention following its Jan. 3 release, the video was subsequently unlisted from the hospital’s YouTube site but remained embedded and accessible via the website’s code of conduct page. It is now available for public view at Headline USA’s YouTube page

As several conservatives pointed out, it was not clear how Milford Regional planned to determine what was and was not “offensive,” making it likely that the policy would be disproportionately biased against speech that did not fall in with the woke agenda.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: censorship; milfordregional; pc; wokeducation; wokeism
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To: DesertRhino
The suffering patient, under who knows what kind of medications, fear and pain, says something that offends a snowflake staff member. Staff member denies them medical care.

More likely, the patient identifies as male but looks female, and is mistakenly addressed as "ma'am" thus the nurse is placed on probation or fired. And who has no case, since hiring require assent to 15. Woke policies.

41 posted on 01/25/2024 1:24:17 PM PST by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: daniel1212

Depending on who’s doing the calling I’d say we Bud Light them...


42 posted on 01/25/2024 1:27:08 PM PST by GOPJ (“POSIWID” systems engineer's acronym that stands for “the Purpose Of a System Is What It Does.”)
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To: daniel1212

Right - that sounds legal


43 posted on 01/25/2024 1:35:36 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: HIDEK6
Who defines “offensive?”

Hint: not you!

44 posted on 01/25/2024 1:38:01 PM PST by workerbee (==)
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To: Red Badger

I have several family members that are medical
Staff. They are called all sorts of racist names by protected class members at least once every week for the past several years.
Nothing is ever done about it.


45 posted on 01/25/2024 1:41:47 PM PST by midwest_hiker
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To: Red Badger

Must surrender your free speech rights in order to get your surgery appointment?!?!?!?!??


46 posted on 01/25/2024 1:44:18 PM PST by 4Liberty (My 2024 prediction: Biden will be 'eliminated' -- not Trump --and Deep State will suspend elections.)
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To: 4Liberty

It’s called govt healthcare.


47 posted on 01/25/2024 1:49:49 PM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: Maudeen

Yes, that’s right, I’m sad to say.


48 posted on 01/25/2024 1:54:07 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Calvin Cooledge

I doubt it.


49 posted on 01/25/2024 1:54:33 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Dogbert41

I would rather die than cave to their evil insanity.


50 posted on 01/25/2024 2:27:21 PM PST by Machavelli (True God)
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To: Scrambler Bob

That actually could be an option offered.


51 posted on 01/25/2024 4:20:45 PM PST by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: daniel1212; Bloody Sam Roberts

Milford Regional is about to be merged with UMass Medical Center system. They have destroyed what once was a wonderful local nonprofit hospital. The employees are miserable, used to be that people worked there for their entire careers, but no longer. A very toxic environment.

Under Massachusetts and federal law you cannot withhold treatment, so this crap is just “virtue signaling”.


52 posted on 01/26/2024 4:28:47 AM PST by Mrs. B.S. Roberts
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To: daniel1212; BroJoeK; x
Massholes being Massholes.

Troublemaking since the 1600s.

53 posted on 01/26/2024 12:02:26 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: daniel1212

,,, next up they’ll install vending machines with Budd Lite in the waiting rooms.


54 posted on 01/26/2024 8:02:40 PM PST by shaggy eel (As for me and my house - we will serve the Lord.)
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To: DiogenesLamp; x
DiogenesLamp: "Massholes being Massholes.
Troublemaking since the 1600s."

Especially back in 1775, when they drove the Brits nuts, and look where that lead.


55 posted on 01/27/2024 2:51:29 AM PST by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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To: BroJoeK
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in awhile.

I've read accounts that the Puritans were ostracized and chased out of every nation they ever tried to settle in. They were constantly stirring up "holier than thou" trouble every where they went.

The reason they went to America was because they had been ran away from everywhere else.

And so it may very well be that they started the American Revolution simply because they were just being the same sort of @$$holes they have always been.

But this time it worked out for the best.

56 posted on 01/27/2024 12:00:51 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp; x
DiogenesLamp: "The reason they went to America was because they had been ran away from everywhere else."

That's true of pretty much every American ancestor.
People who already had the good life didn't need to leave their homes in their Old Country.
Those who left and came here were nearly all in some form of trouble or another.

The question is whether they found what they were looking for here in America.
In general, the answer was "yes", but in Massachusetts especially, and other colonies to lesser degrees, they wanted to be treated like proper Englishmen in matters of self-government, while the British Parliament & king had a different idea.

The eventual result, by 1775, was war.

Btw, fwiw, I can find no evidence that Massachusetts leaders like John Adams, Samuel Adams, Paul Revere or John Hancock had any Puritan ancestors.

Indeed, I can't find the name of even one Massachusetts Puritan who was active in the US Revolutionary War.

Here's what Bing AI says about it:

Mayflower Compact, November 21, 1620:


57 posted on 01/27/2024 10:58:52 PM PST by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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To: Dogbert41

It isn’t just woke.

God help you if you disagree with your provider about your course of treatment, refuse certain recommendations.

Wonder how many folks are finding our the hard way what it means to be labeled as a non-compliant patient.


58 posted on 01/27/2024 11:05:10 PM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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