In a word, no. If this is how said individual feels or publicly reacts, it seriously calls into question how he performs his duties as a physician. Since many people feel that the best way to deal with a Klansman is to kill them, if this person has any Republican patients (and where he lives, it is a GOP county), he could be putting their lives and any treatment at risk.
If I were a patient of his, knowing how he regards politically sane people, I would be extraordinarily suspect and worried about his “care.” I absolutely believe it’s enough to warrant investigation and a suspension or loss of his medical license. Same goes for that deranged nurse from Florida we discussed last week.
It’s a substantial difference of a medical worker vs. a barber or cab driver.
“If this is how said individual feels or publicly reacts, it seriously calls into question how he performs his duties as a physician. “
OK. So investigate. Summary suspension of a license for political speech, however, is injudicious and un-American.
“If I were a patient of his, knowing how he regards politically sane people, I would be extraordinarily suspect and worried about his “care.””
Which is why there are other doctors. If you don’t like one for whatever reason, you go to another one.
“Since many people feel that the best way to deal with a Klansman is to kill them, if this person has any Republican patients (and where he lives, it is a GOP county), he could be putting their lives and any treatment at risk.”
Sidney Poitier played a black doctor in a town embroiled in a race riot, and at the end of the film he calmly and professionally tends to the injured leader of the white faction of the riot, one hateful SOB. Powerful film. Available on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gklUlDEf9uM