This is my third time to the office. Im waiting for the Doctor to come in and whie waiting in the examination room, I spot this. I start flipping through it, and I am getting upset.
I wait for the doctor to come in. I immeditely ask him, hey what it this? why is it here? He blew me off and just said "oh its just an opinion piece" and I said, yeah, but who put it here, do you believe in this? And he just shrugged. I said, Im leaving, that is so wierd, thats weird to have in a doctors office. And I left. Ill never go back to that place.
I need a doctor who believes in science. You wanna be christain thats fine, but this literally says,for christain nationalism. gross.
Putnam CT, USA if anyone is curious. I want to post the photo in google maps reviews, but I am afraid to, even with my google account being a burner. Yes, it's the red pocket of an overall blue state, but, I just, was not expecting to see this.
I worked with physicians on an almost daily basis during my hospital IT career. Believe me when I say this is NOT an unusual thing. Some of the most whacked out RWNJs I've known were MDs. It should scare you shitless.
People should be skeptical about professionals that we consider to be of higher character and intelligence. Plenty of them have f’d up ideas and objectively unscientific views. Doctors, lawyers, commercial pilots, engineers, higher ranked military officers… people you’d assume hold themselves to higher standards.
They’re just people. As long as they’re not nuts and pass the right tests, a flat earther can become an engineer, anti-vaxxers become doctors, right-wing nutters everywhere.
Case and Point: Ben Carson.
It's a bit unfourtunate that I think in my search for a new doctor.. I will have to ask their belief. Im going to search for an atheist doctor..
I do believe this was the typical exam room for my lady doctor. Her family is from India, and I dont care that there were her family memeber photos on the wall, and Indian art on the walls, I didnt care she had a cross on her neck. I though it unique or maybe she was trying to fit in with the demographic, or whatever, but this is a hard line to cross.
The male doctor I was seeing on the off sick visit.. coward at my questions, and this doesnt help the situation, nor my confusion. Who's was it? he didnt answer. so, I dont really know.
It does scare me shitless, and I want an atheist doctor now, full stop