Reviewing it once more
Jul. 18th, 2006 09:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
holzman_tweedThe notion that pharmacists should be permitted to decide what drugs your Doctor may give you based on moral grounds is wholly without merit. However, there is occasionally a valid reason to refuse a perscription that has nothing to do with morals: drug interactions, for example, where the pharmacist has knowledge that the Doctor does not.
There is even less basis for an EMT deny transport to a patient on the basis of their morals.
That didn't stop Stephanie Adamson from refusing to transport a patient who needed to go to a clinic to get an abortion. Because this woman shirked her duty, a patient suffered pain and had to be transported by another ambulance to an Emergency Room.
Thank the Gods her supervisor shitcanned her on the spot.
She has the gall now to sue the ambulance company for religious discrimination. The company rightly maintains that she was fired not for her religion, but for endangering a patient. Not only should this woman not prevail in this lawsuit, I hope the woman to whom she denied transport sues her for the pain and suffering she causes, as well as any additional costs incurred because she had to go to a hospital ER instead of a clinic.
This, not anything that the GLBT community has asked for, is the expectation of special rights.
There is even less basis for an EMT deny transport to a patient on the basis of their morals.
That didn't stop Stephanie Adamson from refusing to transport a patient who needed to go to a clinic to get an abortion. Because this woman shirked her duty, a patient suffered pain and had to be transported by another ambulance to an Emergency Room.
Thank the Gods her supervisor shitcanned her on the spot.
She has the gall now to sue the ambulance company for religious discrimination. The company rightly maintains that she was fired not for her religion, but for endangering a patient. Not only should this woman not prevail in this lawsuit, I hope the woman to whom she denied transport sues her for the pain and suffering she causes, as well as any additional costs incurred because she had to go to a hospital ER instead of a clinic.
This, not anything that the GLBT community has asked for, is the expectation of special rights.