Posted on 03/05/2010 4:30:50 PM PST by ruralvoter
It's no secret that proposals for health care reform have been divisive. (snip)
In Tampa, the issue has transcended rhetoric to become intensely personal.
It has severed the relationship between a doctor and a patient.
The doctor is Madelyn Butler, founder of an obstetrics and gynecology practice called The Woman's Group. She doesn't like President Barack Obama's health care proposal and has posters in her office urging people to contact lawmakers and tell them to vote against the legislation.
The patient is Barbara Gabriel, pregnant with her first child and a backer of the president's plan for health care reform. She saw the posters during a routine checkup at Butler's office.
Offended, Gabriel pulled them down and tossed them out, she said. Then she sent a letter to Butler on Dec. 29, admonishing the doctor for a "lack of professionalism" and for "introducing political propaganda in a clinical setting."
The doctor responded a week later. She wrote that she, too, was offended.
(Excerpt) Read more at 2.tbo.com ...
1 could argue that it’s beyond the pale for a doctor (etc) to publicly post things about politics.
But then, it’s very much personal to them.
Meanwhile, it’s typical liberal for her to pull down the literature without so much as a confrontation with the staff about it 1st.
YOU GO, DOC!!!
Glad to see the DR fired her patient. If ANYTHING had gone wrong with this woman’s delivery I KNOW John Edwards would have been immediately on the case! Smart DR!
Barbara has no business getting pregnant. She’s already a terrible mother, saddling her fetus with a lifetime of debt and sub-standard health care. Did it occur to her that her OB went through a minimum of 12 years of higher education to EARN her “bloated salary”? This woman needs to be SLAPPED!
I’m surprised the patient is letting herself be “punished” by having a baby. That’s what abortion is for./sarc
Good for the doctor.
No Freedom of Speech for Doctors Against Obamacare. How’s that Hope and Change working out for everyone?
“The bloated salaries that specialists such as the physicians at The Woman’s Group earn are a symptom of the sickness that currently plagues our broken healthcare system.”
Do you know what goes into those “bloated” salaries? (I’ll bet she’s another of these jackasses who whines about doctors and CEOs who actually do something useful while applauding and cheering on her favorite liberal actors who do nothing useful but are paid handsomely.)
Never mind the talking points of malpractice insurance and tort reform.
How about how many YEARS the doc is in school? How much it costs for those schools? How many grants/loans are being paid back after 15 years of being in school? For starters.
“In her letter, Gabriel wrote, “The bloated salaries that specialists such as the physicians at The Woman’s Group earn are a symptom of the sickness that currently plagues our broken healthcare system.”
Wonder if this little pregnant socialist would mind kicking in for the 12 years time it took to become a doctor and help her pay back $100,000 in school loans since she finds such offense in her “bloated salary.”
This *patient* selected a doctor for a routine pregnancy.
She probably has group insurance for which the insurance company is required to cover maternity expenses(higher premiums). The doctor, because patients have become litigious - has to purchase mal-practice coverage (for OBGYNs it is higher than most). Physician is on-call 24/7.
Quite sure the patient has had sonograms, blood tests etc., etc., not all medically necessary - but to CYA for the doctor and to determine the baby’s sex. More expense.
A pregnant woman today is the beneficiary of decades of high quality research and technology - developed at enormous cost - making maternity much less stressful and uncertain with a higher positive outcome than in centuries past.
Perhaps with her attitude, she should deliver at home with a midwife - boiling water and stuffing a towel in her mouth to ease the pain. Just like her gran’ma did.
I learned one time that a Dr can drop you as a patient just because he doesn’t like you personaly at lest in my state they can.
I noticed the comment about bloated salaries and thought that perhaps she should try medical school to see what it’s like.
You’d think the patient would at least be interested in finding out what it was about the plan the doctor didn’t like. LIke Obama, the patient’s attitude is my way or the highway.
“In her letter, Gabriel wrote, “The bloated salaries that specialists such as the physicians at The Woman’s Group earn are a symptom of the sickness that currently plagues our broken healthcare system.””
This one sentence demonstrates how ignorant Gabriel is about the true costs of ob/gyn care.
Obstetricians experience a high rate of lawsuits because pregnancies can often be a ‘crap shoot’ - you never know what is going to happen. They charge large fees because they have to pay huge insurance costs.
One woman tort lawyer in Washington, D.C., whose legal practice specialized in medical lawsuits, became pregnant and then couldn’t find an Ob/Gyn to take her on as a patient! What can one say - paybacks are a b!tch.
If you don't like it go find another doctor!
any doctor that wouldn't post his/her opposition to obamacare I wouldn't want for a doctor!
What do you want to bet that this is the next sob story letter that MaObama reads to the world about the sad state of health care in this country?
(The comments at the article are also interesting. Commenters are totally pwning the goofy pregnant lib.)
Unfortunately a relative of mine goes to a doctor who has Global Warming posters all over the office and swoons over Gorebot during client consultations. He’s a good doctor so my relative just listens with a stone face.
But Obama promised us if we liked our doctor nobody would make us leave our doctor. He lied again!!!!!
My doctor posts The Limbaugh Letter in the waiting rooms.
How did she pull them down and toss them out?
That is a one sided opinion making a choice for everyone else she doesn’t have the right too.
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