Posted on 06/27/2012 5:42:18 AM PDT by tioga
Yes, other times and cultures.
In my entire lifetime people have gotten their ears pierced in shopping malls. Not doctor’s offices.
And I checked some baby sites and it is not a normal practice for American hospitals to offer ear piercing. The pediatricians don’t recommend such a thing.
Why is it that I’m not allowed to have a culture and a reaction to what is an alien expectation?
I will offer an apology to T5 if my reaction offended her. But I’m not going to apologize to you for it.
Yes, doctors fix stuff when the body is damaged. I get that.
But I would not expect my obstetrician to pierce ears any more than I expect my dentist to do tattoos.
You can also go to a real eye doctor for eyeglasses, but unless you have a special need, most people go to boutiques in the mall, or WalMart.
No offense taken-this is, after all the southwest, where hispanic culture is nearly 400 years old, and WASP culture is less than 200-also, my daughter was born in SA, where several military bases mean that people from a lot of different countries are usually around, and a lot of those foreigners pierce girls ears at birth, too, like xs was saying.
Back in the hippie era, when my daughter was born, you could get your baby’s ears pierced in a doctor’s office-it was not much of a reach to me that it could be done at the hospital before I took the kid home. Most of the piercing was done at home, though. The first time I saw an ear piercing kiosk in the mall in SA was in the late 70’s.
Not sure how to interpret that one, except to duck and cover ;)
and i think that is sweetness and mother %#}]*+_#%^*ing LIGHT!
nowhere did i say that medical professionals were not free to refuse to do anything. i said that to say that a medical professional SHOULD NOT perform piercings is preposterous, to use Soother’s word. i have had my ears pierced by physicians, exclusively. as far as what CODES they used, well that’s not my purview. but i do know that physicians perform piercings. and yes, as you said in your last sentence, they are able to refuse and clients can find someone else willing to do it, aka another medical professional who does them.
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