[Info-vax] Just how much is 30, 000 pounds in US dollars? Basic programmers

[seasoned_geek]

On Feb 6, 7:51 pm, c... at wvnvms.wvnet.edu (George Cook) wrote:
> In article <3f270075-45cc-4f2d-9e38-a77f1e8ac... at z20g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>, seasoned_geek <rol... at logikalsolutions.com> writes:
>
> > On Feb 1, 4:02=A0pm, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
> > undress to reply) wrote:
> >> Any country where a physician can refuse to accept a patient is not
> >> civilised. =A0
>
> > A physician is not allowed.  They are required to treat the patient in
> > front of them or lose their license.  This is why there is such a mine
> > field of administrators and LPNs between the patient and the
> > physician, re-directing them to county.
>
> What country are you referring to?  In general, in the US,
> hospitals and individual docters can turn away anyone unless
> it is an emergency, although public hospitals usually treat
> anyone regardless of ability to pay.  The main reason why some
> emergency rooms are so crowded is that people who can only afford
> "free" care go there.  In general, emergency departments (at
> least non-private ones) treat anyone seeking care whether or not
> it is an emergency, however, even public Level 1 trauma centers
> (due to being over capacity) sometime turn away ambulances unless
> it is a true Level 1 emergency (i.e., the patient will most likely
> die before reaching the next available ER).
>
> George Cook

In the U.S., a DOCTOR is not allowed to refuse treatment and maintain
their license.  The nurse and admin people in the doctor's office are
the ones turning patients away.  Again, at a Level 1 trauma center,
the admin staff are the ones turning patients away, not a DOCTOR.
It's part of the licensing and part of the modern hippocratic oath

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath
"I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special
obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and
body as well as the infirm."

There was even a West Wing episode devoted mostly to this topic.
http://communicationsoffice.tripod.com/4-09.txt

BARTLET
The only doctor available won't do it.

ABBEY
He's Jewish?

BARTLET
Persian.

ABBEY
He doesn't have a choice.

BARTLET
Abbey...

ABBEY
He doesn't. Doctors aren't instruments of the state, and they're not
allowed to choose
patients on spec.

BARTLET
I can't order him to do it.

ABBEY
Yes, you can.

BARTLET
Through the power vested in me by you?

ABBEY
Samuel Mudd set Booth's leg after he shot Lincoln. Doctors are liable
in this country
if they don't treat the patient right in front of them.

BARTLET
Just for the record, this is why we don't talk about foreign policy.
Which we do, and
you don't think we do it enough.

ABBEY
Why?

BARTLET
Because Samuel Mudd was tried and convicted of treason for setting
that leg.

ABBEY
So?

BARTLET
What 'so'?

ABBEY
So that's the way it goes. You set the leg.



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