Should A Doctor Turn Away A Patient?
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Should a doctor be able to turn a patient away? This has been a very debatable issue. There have been many arguments for and against the topic. I feel that the decision should be left up to the doctor. He should do what he thinks is the right thing, for instance if the doctor may not feel qualified to perform the operation or he feels that there is nothing that could been done and if the patient becomes violent and threatens the doctor and the staff. That would be grounds for him to release the patient.
A good reason that a doctor should be able to turn away a patient is if the doctor is not qualified to treat the patient. If a person went to a dermatologist for a gun shot wound the doctor would have to turn him away. If the patient is lucky the doctor would give him a the name and number of someone who is more capable of doing a better job. Just because he is a doctor does not mean that he knows how to treat every kind of illness. Doctors are trained in specific fields, they do not have the brain power to know everything that there is to know about the human body. It is just impossible.
Besides if one went to a doctor that did not know what he was doing. Chances are the patient would not be very comfortable with the doctor treating him or her. That is why he should have the option to turn away patients. If they didn’t you would probably die, and that would be bad for you and the doctor.
Another reason is if the patient is making threats at the doctor and his staff. Why should he try to save someone that is saying that he is going to try to hurt or even kill them. There is no incentive to treat that person. The doctor could always sedate the patient but that is way to expensive and not worth the risk. When doing that, the doctor must have everything perfect and exact. If done wrong the patient could go into a coma or worse they could die. All because the patient was being uncooperative. Lindsay,