Woman denied cancer treatment for "transphobic" views and discharged from future care

[HootyMcBooby76]

Have we discussed this?
Apologies if so.
Woman Accuses Hospital of Denying Cancer Treatment Over Transphobic Comment (newsweek.com)

So the mantra is LITERALLY accept this ideology or be prepared to die.
And THEY have the gall to call us (insert word for a member of the far-right National Socialist German Workers' Party).

This is why healthcare and this ideology should be kept very far apart. Healthcare is no longer neutral and unbiased.
Believe or die.

I think she was being very difficult and looking for confrontation really. I think instances like this suggest the dilemma of US allies on this issue - gender critical culture wars are popular with right wing Trumpists and evangelicals who are not my natural allies.

I'm a Terf but I don't think I really object to rainbow etc flags - if they are signalling they welcome diversity so be it. But I would object to not being able to access women only care and treatment where appropriate.

@Murica
MillicentBystandr · Yesterday 18:22
A quick google shows three other hospital networks in Portland/Beaverton Oregon area that also do oncology: Providence, Adventist, and Legacy. They accept most health insurance providers as well.

Yes, all those are part of OHSU. She has been dismissed from that network. And since the Richmond clinic is a Federally Qualified Health Center, it's likely she can't afford to toddle off to just any clinic.

@Murica no, I didn’t misread. I think he would take your view on this so thought actually you’d prefer his flag to the Trans one. I’m guessing there should be no gay emblems, or neurodiversity or any of the other groups who struggle against bigoted attitudes?

Google says they are not part of OHSU. Various websites say they Hager affiliation agreements which mean they can transfer patients between them while complying with HIPAA.

Have affiliation agreements

What?
You think he wouldn't want Trump Flags every where? I think he probably would.

In the NHS we treat people we disagree with. We treat criminals, we treat rude people. I don't think it's right to stop treatment even if the patient was rude and hard work, but that's private healthcare for you I guess

I have a couple of friends who no longer work for the nhs because they were expected to tolerate racism on an almost daily basis from patients. They are not the only people who have left our already understaffed nhs due to being treated appallingly by patients.
Our system isn't perfect either.

Don't forget that the staff treating people are also human beings.

I agree, and if the NHS is privatised that is something we would lose.

I work for NHS myself. Racism isn't fine but I don't think it should be a death sentence which withdrawing treatment would be. We maybe wouldn't make so much small talk or be quite so friendly with unpleasant patients but we still have to treat them. It is entirely different if a patient refuses treatment because they demand a white doctor. They get who is available or don't get seen! But then withdrawing is the patient decision not the staff

Absolutely true.

Yep, I mean look at what has happened to our dentists.

I think it's a balancing act of rights.

Ultimately if we treat our nhs staff like dirt and fail to protect them then they'll leave which means longer waiting lists and already stretched staff having to pick up more, leading to more leaving. This is also a death sentence for many people.

I don't agree with the nhs withdrawing treatment from people but I don't blame staff who withdraw themselves from the nhs which has the same effect ultimately.

Also there is a line. Do you really think nhs staff should have to treat soneone who, for example, physically attacks them?

This isn't about a flag or her cancer treatment. She was being vile about an individual and they have reacted by no longer offering her a private service from their business. Even by her own account she sounds deeply unpleasant.

"However, the situation intensified this year after Barbera tried to leave a message for her doctor about blood test results. The receptionist urged her to make an appointment instead. Not wanting to add another medical appointment to her calendar, Barbera refused. The receptionist allegedly got frustrated and "hung up on" Barbera, according to Barbera's comments in the Reduxx report. I asked, guessing 'did I hurt the trans person's feelings?' And the receptionist took offense to the question, asking 'what did you say' slowly and with great emphasis," Barbera told Reduxx, adding that she ended the call after the comment.

I think it depends on the treatment. This clinic doesn't offer oncology so this wasn't treatment for cancer.

I'd like to think if you were in an NHS ward and didn't need life preserving treatment and you were consistently racist/abusive then you would be discharged. NHS staff shouldn't need to risk their own wellbeing for someone who could behave better but chooses not to.