Last Debate

Healthcare organizations should accomodate requests for gender or culturally sensitive specials treatments. I think this statement is true and should always be true and his kind of hard to argue. Though it is hard to argue there are ways it can be done. Todays debate was ok, but in my opinion the con side kept bringing up the same things that did not make alot of sense in the first place.
The first subject brought up was a woman going to the hospital/doctor's office and the right of her to see a woman physician over a male. The con side says that this is not feasible, but when have you ever heard of a woman wanting to see a woman physician a problem. I have never came across this problem before in my life, I know when I was younger I did not feel comfortable seeing a male doctor when I was first starting to get my female check ups and I always got to see a female doctor.
The pro side brought up a very good point talking about the HOPE questions, which is something that I have never heard of before, and this really caught my eye. I thought this was a very good way to throw back and the con side for whatever they were asking. I was still kind of unsure what the terms meant fully but I look them up after the debate today and researched more about them and thought them to be a very valid source. The HOPE concepts for discussion are as follows: H--sources of hope, strength, comfort, meaning, peace, love and connection; O--the role of organized religion for the patient; P--personal spirituality and practices; E--effects on medical care and end-of-life decisions.
The con side said that doctors do not have time to accomodate every single request of the patient. I think this is not true, I may have reasonable requests and some that may not be so reasonable and it is the duty of the doctor to try to accomodate all your requests or give you a valid explanation on why they cannot.
A student also brought up a very good scenerio in class today stating: A lesbian wanted a fertility treatment and the doctor had refused, knowing that she was a lesbian, and stated it was against his beliefs. I guess there were some problems with the case stating that if he cannot make it equal to treat every patient for fertility whether they be a gay couple or not, than he should find ways to accomodate them in such a way to maybe have another physician in his practice that feels comfortable performing in certain cases. I think that doing something like having another physician is very reasonable because it helps the experiences at the practice, the business of the practice, and makes everyone happy.
The con side stated that there cannot be a physician available for every different culture and to accomodate the needs of that culture. I think that physician's today are very diverse and are of all cultures themselves and if they do not practice the wishes of their culture the physician are well rounded enough to know how to take care of the situation, and it is the choice of the patient in the end to decide if they would still like to use that doctor or not. The con side says the doctor only had about twelve minutes with each patient a day and things such as cultural and gender requests take up to much of their time. Well I sat "SO WHAT"! I pay out of my pay check every month to pay for my health care and I will ask for whatever I need and take up more than twelve minutes if I need too, dont you think you deserve the same respect?
The last point brought up that I remember was a physician treating two patients for the same procedure, should the physician be help liable for discrimination for refusing to treat one patient over the other. I find this a pretty easy question because of course if there is no reasonable explanation to why he would treat one over the other, of course it is discrimination, but there are cases in which the other patient may not be able to take likely to the procedure being performed for reasons such as health conditions.
We discussed how we are found to take number of cultural classes throughout high school, associates, bachelors, and all the way up to grad school such as elder classes, culture classes, and religion classes for all aspects around the world. So I think that no matter what a physician should be pretty well rounded on the different cultures and should know what to do in the different cases.
I know if I was a doctor I would try and take on any scenerio to the best of my ability and if I couldnt I would find someone who could and each and every experience would only better myself in my career.