Same holds for if the patient is old, female, dark, non-English, non-verbal, or support a different soccer team... you treat them with the exact same care and quality, and if you can't do that for personal reasons, you really really really need to find a different career, but you should also grow the fuck up

You don't get to choose their upbringing, but you can, decide to be a good teacher and a person they trust…

- And thus empower them to become better adults!

• If their inaction foreseeably caused someone's death they may be directly on the hook for a first degree murder or at least manslaughter charge of extra severity, so up to lifetime no less than 15-35 years without parole.

Or as Firefighters know:

You don't stop CPR'ing someone until the doctor orders the paramedic to drag you away from the body!

#NotLegalAdvice but in either case one wouldn't even get hired as a pathologist in Somalia with that "career suicide"…

This naturally refers to a patient, meaning they are ill or injured accordingly.

LGBTQA* refers, of course, to sexual identity or orientation.

My dad knows Russian but doesn't speak it because, as he put it, he grew up in a place where Russian was the required first foreign language.

How do I know he knows Russian? Because when he switches into "doctor mode," I've heard him a couple of times speaking Russian to patients over the decades.

When he practices, he's a professional, and he leaves his personal opinions off.

OTOH, that does not mean that they need to seek such situations; my dad, e.g., as a Catholic, does not provide anesthesia for abortions. It does not keep him from having OB/GYNs as friends who provide these services; he just does not seek planned procedures. Wouldn't keep him from providing emergency life-saving measures. Etc.

The professor is, of course, correct. The best response is "you're a professional and your personal bigotries do not matter at all, if you think they do then you should have your medical license revoked and be put on a blacklist."

But the success these people have had is undeniable.

Withheld required assistance - German StGB 323c, punishable up to 2 years in jail Plus loss of license, of course.