IOW, Doctors should be forced to treat people they don't want to treat and Hospitals should be forced to treat patients they don't want to treat?????
Spoken like a true socialist PC nanny stater.
This was an ELECTIVE procedure and the woman was endangering every person in that hospital by bringing disease ridden insects into the hospital environment.
Doctors and hospitals should be free to choose who they treat and when they treat them and under what conditions they want to treat them. And if a patient wants an elective procedure and their presence in an office or a hospital might endanger other patients, they should be shown the door every time. If I am a patient in a hospital, I sure as hell don't want to share a room with a person who is infested with bed bugs.
The same socialist PC nanny staters who outlawed DDT, which would have cured this problem permanently by now, are the ones who would demand that this doctor treat this woman or lose his license to practice medicine.
Weren’t bed bugs found to carry MRSA?
I said that the doctor should have found some way to treat her, e.g. by decontaminating her first, burning her clothes, etc. But P-Marlowe was right about the fact that, because she was there for elective surgery, not for bedbug treatment, he was under no ethical or professional obligation to treat her at all. I stand corrected in that regard.