The gist of the below article on "respect" of muslim medical patients really boils down to muslims becoming the priority at US hospitals and sharia law dictating hospital policies. The PC jackasses will be placing muslim women & men at TOP priorities due to their supposed religious based need for privacy and female or male doctors. The mere fact that Dr. Padela is suggesting muslims be treated differently than other medical patients in America - is chilling.
How could this affect you?
If you are in an emergency room or hospital bed and a muslim woman comes along whining for her 'religious rights' and YOU are being attended to by the only female physician -who do you think is going to have their MD leave and attend the muslim?
If you are a woman in labor and your OB is a woman - and a muslim woman comes into the hospital in labor and says she requires a female OB and no others are available - kiss your female MD good-bye because the muslim woman is the PRIORITY.
OR if you are a man being attended to by the only male physician in an emergency room, etc. - and a muslim man demands that the available female MD not treat him - who do you think is going to have the male doctor pulled of their case?
And where does this leave female and male nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses' aides, etc? Undoubtedly scheduling will be affected and a muslim patient will undoubtedly cause a schuffling of medical personnel - at a minimum - to accomodate the priority "religion".
In fact a male physician, ignoring the demands of muslim family members and patients, who continues treating a female muslim may prove threatening and deadly consequences for him:
"In U.S.-occupied Iraq, male gynecologists have been threatened with death for attempting to treat women. Nongovernmental organizations have warned that female doctors are scarce and male doctors are being intimidated against treating women...there were two cases in which doctors reportedly were killed../ after leaving their clinics." SOURCE
The above in not just happening in Islamic countries - in France - a male obstetrician was assaulted by a muslim man - in the hospital delivery room!
"Fouad ben Moussa burst into the delivery room at a Paris hospital last November and shoved, slapped and insulted Dr Jean-Francois Oury as he examined the woman after a complicated birth, the prosecution said in court on Wednesday. Police had to intervene to remove him." SOURCE
In actuality it appears that the below writer wants the Muslim Doctor's Association Code of Ethics implemented - I previously wrote about the UK MDA and their prioritization of Islam and muslim patients and it appears to be the similar case in the USA where blogger Debbie Schlussel - has revealed the USA Muslim Doctor oath.
Expect the chief purveyor of sleazy (myth of) Islamophobia lawsuits, Hamas linked CAIR regarding this (CAIR's goal is to implement sharia law in the USA) to gleefully be rubbing their greedy hands together at the thought of all those lucrative hospital/MD lawsuits for "religious discrimination". AND fully expect to see burkha hospital gowns issued by hospitals - like they do in England/UK - financed by primarily non muslims via increased healthcare costs.
The below reeks of multiculturalistic kowtowing (aka dhimmitude) - and you KNOW the ones who will lose out - possibly get less care and likely be forced to see an MD that you don't know as a muslim woman or man requires your attending physician because - the muslim is the priority.
This "respect" article should be retitled:
DICTATING THE ISLAMIZATION OF USA HOSPITALS
By RONI CARYN RABIN
A woman in her mid-30s wearing a hijab, the traditional Muslim head covering, comes to an urgent care center complaining of leg pain. The first thing she asks: “Are there any woman doctors around?”
She declines to be alone in an exam room with a male doctor. She does not want to be touched by a man who is not a family member, even as part of a medical examination.
It’s a hypothetical situation, recounted in a new paper in The Journal of Medical Ethics, but the scenario neatly summarizes some of the dilemmas confronting health care workers in hospitals serving observant Muslim patients. When the traditional health care system cannot accommodate their needs, what are doctors and nurses to do?
Dr. Aasim I. Padela, an emergency room physician at the University of Michigan, has some ideas. In the new paper, published on Monday, he explains the basic tenets of Islamic medical ethics, with recommendations about accommodating Muslim sensitivities within the health care system.
Though Muslims differ in their adherence to tradition, maintaining modesty is the “overarching Islamic ethic” pertaining to interaction between the sexes, Dr. Padela wrote. The awrah, or parts of the body that are not to be exposed, differ depending on who else is present. For observant Muslim women, covering up the body is important when they are in the company of non-mahram males, those not related by blood or marriage.
People who are non-mahram adults of the opposite sex are prohibited from being alone together in a closed place where sexual intercourse could occur or where even such an accusation could be made, Dr. Padela said. A prophetic tradition states that when a non-mahram woman and man are alone together, Satan is the “third among them,” Dr. Padela noted, so the laws prohibit not only adultery but “proximity” to adultery.
As a result, Muslim men, too, may be reluctant to be cared for by female physicians.
“I don’t want to be misconstrued — I’m not advocating for separate but equal facilities” (oh yes he is - 'camels nose under the tent')of the type that exist in hospitals in Muslim countries, said Dr. Padela, a Muslim who devotes most of his time to research on Islamic medical ethics. “Sometimes it’s a simple matter of asking a patient, ‘Is there some way I can make you more comfortable?’ ”
Dr. Padela cited the case of a Muslim woman who had recently undergone surgery.
“She went to a physician whom she trusted and told him, ‘I need to at least have my head covering on when I leave the operating room,’ ” he recalled. The hijab is part of the dress code for many, though not all, Muslim women.
“When she woke up, she was wearing a gown, but her head was uncovered,” Dr. Padela said. “She was livid. She had been there many hours. She will never go back to that hospital again.”
Indeed, concerns about modesty can play out in unexpected ways in hospital settings. A few years ago, Dr. Padela was working in an emergency room when a middle-aged South Asian woman arrived by ambulance. She had fallen on her back the day before and hadn’t been able to use the bathroom for 24 hours. It was possible she had suffered a spinal cord injury.
But there was no female physician on duty, and the patient, an observant Muslim, was reluctant to be examined by a male physician. Dr. Padela eventually convinced her to allow him to examine her spinal cord, offering to wear gloves so as to avoid direct skin-to-skin contact.
The patient refused a rectal exam, yet Dr. Padela’s supervisor later criticized him for not doing one, saying he could have missed a serious injury that might have caused permanent paralysis.
While most doctors are receptive to improving communication with patients like this one, others cite time constraints, saying they “don’t have time to do an anthropologic evaluation of a family,” said Dr. Joseph Betancourt, an internist who is director of multicultural education at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
He cautioned that there is so much variation in practice among Muslims that health providers must be careful not generalize or make assumptions about patients’ beliefs and practices. Still, he said, it is helpful for doctors to know something about Muslim traditions. Having a better understanding usually improves communication and may actually save time.
Dr. Naureen Zafar is director of the Medina Clinic at Harlem Hospital Center, an initiative of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation that is open to all but is geared toward serving West Africans, most of whom are Muslim. She said that research has shown many devout Muslim women delay accessing health care and may have very advanced disease by the time they seek medical help. “They don’t even want to give personal histories to men who are strangers to them,” she said.
Pregnant Muslim women usually seek out a female obstetrician for prenatal care and prefer to have a female doctor present at delivery. That request cannot always be accommodated, Dr. Zafar said.
“It may depend on whoever is on call when they come in to deliver,” Dr. Zafar said, adding that Islamic law allows for exceptions when it’s a “life and death situation.”
Many health care centers have already taken steps to accommodate Muslim patients. Franklin Hospital in Valley Stream on Long Island, which is part of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, recently started offering patients halal food in keeping with Muslim dietary rules, said Joe Manopella, executive director of the hospital.
Other steps that hospitals might take include intake questionnaires where patients can list their religious concerns and values, Dr. Padela said. They also might provide more modest hospital gowns or give patients the option of wearing their own clothing. (see hospital gown pictured above)
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