Doctor Denying Care To Obama Voters

From Huffington Post, as reported in The Orlando Sentinel:

Florida urologist Jack Cassell posted a sign on his office door reading, "If you voted for Obama ... seek urologic care elsewhere. Changes to your health care begin right now, not in four years."


Cassell, a registered Republican, quickly backpedaled in an interview with the Orlando Sentinel, but said he's perfectly happy to lose business over the sign. "I'm not turning anybody away, that would be unethical," he told the Sentinel. "But if they read the sign and turn the other way, so be it."


Patients who continue past the sign on Cassell's door find a waiting room stacked with Republican pamphlets opposing health care reform, underneath a sign reading, "This is what the morons in Washington have done to your health care. Take one, read it and vote out anyone who voted for it."

His office, his choice. It is my choice as to whether I want to see a physician who discriminates on basis of political beliefs. What's next, GOP? Armbands?

Have you seen this man? Does he accept Medicare? It is my sense from something this blatantly discriminatory - despite if he is only trying to be funny and/or allowing patients to make their own choices - that the AMA might want to revisit his medical license to practice.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. ~ Albert Einstein