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A lesbian couple is taking a Winnipeg doctor to the Manitoba Human Rights Commission and to the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Manitoba alleging they were denied care because of their sexual orientation.
The story broke earlier this week, and I was able to weigh in on it for today's Toronto Star.
The case, it seems, is another example of conflicting religious and cultural rights. We can probably expect more in the future, especially as we import doctors (and other professionals) to make up for shortages here, the head of the college says.
How we handle such issues may well determine the kind of society we will have.
The College has stealthily set up the appearance that ethnic doctors are inflexible to Canadian culture. Why? Normally this criticism of foreign attitudes would be seen as un-PC so there must be an ulterior motive behind the College's "concern." What is it?
Tolerance/intolerance to groups is being tapped these days as the next way to increase organ donation. Organ donation is rarely about organs anymore, it's about euthanasia in order to make money by saving on neuro rehabilitation costs, selling hope through organ replacement and pushing anti-rejection drugs.
Canadians who agree to organ donation do so because they have been groomed to see it as merciful, aggrandizing and heroic. Canadians like to believe they are the nicest people the world has ever seen, and make all their decisions based on that.
Sadly, they are also right up there in the gullible department because organ donation is not at all what it seems. It is a creepy way to dispose of the imperfect, a insidious attitude which is pushed everywhere in the marketplace.
How do gays and lesbians feature in this puzzle? Well, they are advertized as the ones who are experiencing the discriminatory attitudes of foreign doctors. In order to inject the "right to be weird" into the limelight so who best to use but the non-religious, non-racial gay community.
By implication, Canadians with the weird taste of "clamoring, asking, begging" doctors to kill their kids by cutting out their organs is suggested. Here, the strange cultural characteristic of wanting to look kind to others by donating the gift of life is added to the mix.
So how do foreign doctors feature in the puzzle? Well, they are the ones who are made out to present a problem to the Colleges and now have to be "educated" to allow Canadians the absurd "cultural" ritual of wanting to kill their head-injured children through cutting out their organs. Organ harvesting kills the donor.
This way, the idea is perpetrated that a Canadian family will ASK for organ donation. This is the new industry tactic to conceal the fact that Canadians are lied to by advertizing techniques that organ harvesting is done after death. Making a Canadian parent "ask" to donate and a foreign doctor obliged to abide by the parent's cultural taste, we get the perfect deceit. The head-injured are killed, organs are procured and the medical system isn't to blame in the slightest!
Foreign doctors aren't really shirking at doing things. They don't care, man! Medical school takes all that away.
State your refusal to donate as soon as you get to the hospital. Don't be a victim of a terrible scam.
Posted by: daena | February 05, 2009 at 05:16 AM