49% think that family doctors should take the religious and cultural notions of their patients into account. This according to a study which would be presented Tuesday by research institute NIVEL.
The study was held after the commotion last year when a Muslim couple refused the help of a male gynecologist. [ed. I don't know of any story where a woman refused such help.]
Religious and cultural notions can also play a role in the question of whether people want to be vacinnated or whether they'll accept blood transfusions. Cultural traditions often play a role in the therapy-trust of a patient.
27% thought that doctors should not take their patients religious or cultural background into account.
Source: Trouw (Dutch)
The study was held after the commotion last year when a Muslim couple refused the help of a male gynecologist. [ed. I don't know of any story where a woman refused such help.]
Religious and cultural notions can also play a role in the question of whether people want to be vacinnated or whether they'll accept blood transfusions. Cultural traditions often play a role in the therapy-trust of a patient.
27% thought that doctors should not take their patients religious or cultural background into account.
Source: Trouw (Dutch)
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There was a story last spring of a couple in the States who lost their baby because they refused the help of a male obsetrician, then sued and lost. I searched for it but I kept coming up with results for that lady who locked her baby in a hot car.
And they're doctors, not anthropologists. They take a hippocratic oath. That should be a two-way street whereby they accept the doctor so long as he/she operates accoording to best medical practices.
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