“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
Speech is speech. But there are also consequences. You can’t yell “fire” in a crowded theater. His “speech” indicates he is of unsound mind and a clear and present threat to his patients (who may not know how he really feels about non-politically sane individuals).
Curiously, I don’t think he should be automatically forced out of office for exposing his deranged fascism - since strong political feelings come with being in politics. He should be defeated at the ballot box along with his colleagues that support him. It’s strictly the medical profession part that is of paramount concern to me.