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Aug. 31st, 2006
Sandwiched between a swimming pool store and a spice shop on Lee Highway in Fairfax, the Tepeyac Family Center looks like any other suburban doctor's office. But it isn't.
The practice combines "the best of modern medicine with the healing presence of Jesus Christ," a brochure at the reception desk announces. An image of the Madonna greets every patient. Doctors, nurses and staff members gather to pray each day before the first appointments.
Great! I assume modern things like antibiotics, xrays and painkillers are off the menu? Instead, we can let JEEEEESUS heal you.
Oh wait - look further.
The center is one of a small but growing number of practices around the country that tailor the care they provide to the religious beliefs of their doctors, shunning birth-control and morning-after pills, IUDs and other contraceptive devices, sterilizations, and abortions, as well as in vitro fertilization. Instead, doctors offer "natural family planning" -- teaching couples to monitor a woman's temperature and other bodily signals to time intercourse.
Ah, of course. It's about TEH SEX! In particular, about TEH WOMEN HAVING TEH SEX AND NOT HAVING TEH BABIES! Icky! Icky, icky, icky!
Here's a basic hint for the fundies. If you're not able to do a job, fuck off and get another one. That goes for lumberjacks who love trees, PETA members working in abbatoirs, primary school teachers who hate children and FUCKING DOCTORS who find parts of medicine to be somehow yukky.
Some more:
"I want to practice my faith," said John T. Bruchalski, the obstetrician-gynecologist who started Tepeyac. "I'm not interested in pushing it on other people. But this allows me to practice medicine without having to do something that I wouldn't see as positive or healthy."
How exactly do you think "I'm not going to give my patients a full professional opinion" isn't pushing your faith on someone else, cocktard? Personally, I'd suggest that if anyone out there ever encounters one of these idiots and they give you medical advice that is limited by their faith, you report them to the relevant medical ethics committee. Fuck em.
The practice combines "the best of modern medicine with the healing presence of Jesus Christ," a brochure at the reception desk announces. An image of the Madonna greets every patient. Doctors, nurses and staff members gather to pray each day before the first appointments.
Great! I assume modern things like antibiotics, xrays and painkillers are off the menu? Instead, we can let JEEEEESUS heal you.
Oh wait - look further.
The center is one of a small but growing number of practices around the country that tailor the care they provide to the religious beliefs of their doctors, shunning birth-control and morning-after pills, IUDs and other contraceptive devices, sterilizations, and abortions, as well as in vitro fertilization. Instead, doctors offer "natural family planning" -- teaching couples to monitor a woman's temperature and other bodily signals to time intercourse.
Ah, of course. It's about TEH SEX! In particular, about TEH WOMEN HAVING TEH SEX AND NOT HAVING TEH BABIES! Icky! Icky, icky, icky!
Here's a basic hint for the fundies. If you're not able to do a job, fuck off and get another one. That goes for lumberjacks who love trees, PETA members working in abbatoirs, primary school teachers who hate children and FUCKING DOCTORS who find parts of medicine to be somehow yukky.
Some more:
"I want to practice my faith," said John T. Bruchalski, the obstetrician-gynecologist who started Tepeyac. "I'm not interested in pushing it on other people. But this allows me to practice medicine without having to do something that I wouldn't see as positive or healthy."
How exactly do you think "I'm not going to give my patients a full professional opinion" isn't pushing your faith on someone else, cocktard? Personally, I'd suggest that if anyone out there ever encounters one of these idiots and they give you medical advice that is limited by their faith, you report them to the relevant medical ethics committee. Fuck em.