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berniesandersmittens

(11,682 posts) Tue Aug 17, 2021, 12:27 PM Aug 2021

A primary care physician can refuse treatment to unvaccinated patients

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — When it comes to legal matters pertaining to COVID-19 and vaccinations, we’ve seen several claims circulating the internet.

One THV11 VERIFY viewer wrote in, asking, “Is it legal for a primary care physician to stop seeing patients who he has treated for 10+ years for not getting the experimental COVID vaccine?”

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"There are certainly reasons that would make the doctor’s refusal to treat discriminatory, but refusal to vaccinate—unless it’s based on a religious objection, which gets much more complicated— is currently not one of them for a private doctor.”

We can verify, yes, it is legal for a primary care doctor to stop treating a patient for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine.

https://www.thv11.com/mobile/article/news/verify/yes-a-private-care-doctor-can-refuse-treatment-if-patient-isnt-vaccinated/91-614b7d30-c72f-4456-9f5a-fe52e94bf6ee

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A primary care physician can refuse treatment to unvaccinated patients (Original Post) berniesandersmittens Aug 2021 OP

I get it. I am vaxxed and I want everybody vaxxed. I would be leary of any Doctor who refuses ... marble falls Aug 2021 #1

vaccines are science based, not politically based WhiteTara Aug 2021 #3

non-compliant patients get dropped all the time JT45242 Aug 2021 #2

We need vaccine passports and to exclude/shun assholes who refuse to be vaccinated LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2021 #4

marble falls

(62,079 posts)

1. I get it. I am vaxxed and I want everybody vaxxed. I would be leary of any Doctor who refuses ...

Reply to berniesandersmittens (Original post)

Tue Aug 17, 2021, 12:35 PM

Aug 2021

... treatment over payment or politics.

WhiteTara

(30,168 posts)

3. vaccines are science based, not politically based

Reply to marble falls (Reply #1)

Tue Aug 17, 2021, 02:37 PM

Aug 2021

and if you refuse to help protect me and my medical staff, I'm all for firing that patient. Let them find a non vaxxed facility.

JT45242

(2,904 posts)

2. non-compliant patients get dropped all the time

Reply to berniesandersmittens (Original post)

Tue Aug 17, 2021, 01:04 PM

Aug 2021

Wife worked for a back doctor many years ago -- if a patient did not go to physical therapy when told to -- the doctor would drop the patient as soon as he/she asked for pain meds.

If you won't listen to the doctor and get a vaccine -- then you should find a doctor that you will listen to.

I have no problem with PCP doing this to protect their staff, patients, and family members of those two groups.

Choices have consequences.

Just wait until insurance companies can add on a surcharge for the unvaccinated that will make smoking look like a cheap hobby.

LetMyPeopleVote

(154,549 posts)

4. We need vaccine passports and to exclude/shun assholes who refuse to be vaccinated

Reply to berniesandersmittens (Original post)

Tue Aug 17, 2021, 03:51 PM

Aug 2021

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