• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    If a doctor refuses to perform a medically necessary procedure because of his/her religion, as far as om concerned that should invalidate their medical license immediately.

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      4 days ago

      The is a medical as is already you want to cut the amount of practicing nurses and doctors to fit your agenda. It’s a two way street. I don’t think a doctor should be forced to circumcise someone either just because it’s a religious ritual

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        12 hours ago

        Religious circumcision is not a medically required procedure, its a religious procedure from the stoneage that should be outlawed

      • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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        I don’t think a doctor should be forced to circumcise someone either just because it’s a religious ritual

        I’m petty sure most religious rituals are medically unnecessary, and medical doctors ought to be free to refuse to perform them.

    • alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Right, because you would want to be the patient to undergo a procedure by a doctor that never performs that procedure?

      No sane country does this.

      Maybe go live in a dictatorship if you like to force people to cut into other people’s bodies.

      • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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        12 hours ago

        ?

        I’m thinking that you missed the point here.

        Point being that if you’re a doctor you cannot cherrypick what procedures you’d like to do based off your religious preferences. Science isn’t pick and choose, you take it all or nothing

      • alsimoneau@lemmy.ca
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        No, but that person should not be a doctor at all if they cannot prioritize patient health.