on 11-10-2015 01:44 PM
Well done, RCH drs for putting the children first and standing up to our politicians and their heart breaking stance on asylum seekers.
Solved! Go to Solution.
on 12-10-2015 12:22 PM
@opmania wrote:
It is one thing to love and nurture children
But to use them as a tool to achieve a political
Agenda
That is another story
Perhaps they are following this oath, which you brought up before, without any regard to political agenda.
The Hippocratic Oath
I will look upon my teachers - those who have imparted to me this Art of Medicine - even as I look upon and impart loyalty and gratitude to my parents. I will share my substance with them, should they be in need. To those who will be my future pupils I will teach this Art, if they so wish, without limitation of fee or covenant.
My practice - in all the manifestations of the Art of Science and Medicine - I shall adopt for the benefit of my patients according to my ability and my judgement, and not for theit hurt or for any wrong. I will not take life. I will not embark on those procedures for which I am untrained and I shall give place to such as are therein skilled in specialist crafts. Into whatsoever place I go as a doctor, I will enter to help the sick and will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and from harm. Whatsoever things I see or hear concerning the life of my patients, and in my attandance upon the sick - I will keep silent thereon, counting such things to be as sacrted secrets. From such precepts cometh that reputation for all that is ethical and best in the great tradition of the healing Art.
Modified from the text of the Greek Physician, Hippocrates of Cos, 460BC-377BC.
on 11-10-2015 02:20 PM
Doctors at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne are refusing to send back asylum seeker children to detention centres amid a showdown with the Immigration Department.
News Corp is reporting the doctors are concerned about the welfare of their dozens of patients and say it would be unethical to discharge them to unsafe conditions that could compromise their health.
Defying new federal laws threatening two years' jail for health workers who speak out against immigration detention centre conditions, more than 400 of the hospital's doctors stood together on Friday demanding children be released from detention.
"We see a whole range of physical, mental, emotional and social disturbances that are really severe and we have no hope of improving these things when we have to discharge our patients back into detention," one paediatrician told News Corp.
The outlet reported that it understood the issue was sparked by a month-long standoff between doctors and authorities over the release of a child with a range of health issues this year.
Staff have also been outraged at immigration guards placed at the entrances of some patients' rooms for 24 hours a day.
on 11-10-2015 04:16 PM
on 11-10-2015 04:33 PM
@kilroy_is_here wrote:So now we have doctors dictating government policy, why don't these over payed extortionists donate there time and go to the detention centres and treat all the inmates if they are that concerned
You're missing the point Kilroy. It's not a lack of doctors in detention centres that is the problem it's the detention centres themselves and the conditions there under which the children have to live and the doctors have to work.
on 11-10-2015 05:21 PM
I am wondering about the mystery surrounding the refugee who is pregnant after being raped and who is for some reason being prevented from being brought to Australia for an abortion. Why the secrecy?
on 11-10-2015 06:07 PM
How can any one think about sending these little children back to a place that is a prison, we are not Nazi's.
Heart breaking.
on 11-10-2015 09:14 PM
Its very unlikely that they
Will be gased
Burned and their fat turned
Into soap and sold back
To the inmates
I would expect a detention
Centre would be a
Holiday choice as opposed
To a war zone for a legitimate
Refugee.
If they were more
Co-operative and stopped
Going on hunger strikes
Sewing their lips together
And burning matresses
And anything else they can find or do
To create total chaos.
Perhaps they would enjoy their
Stay a little more than they do
This could as well cause many of
The problems the children
Supposedly have or geez maybe its
Because they have been
Traumatized by war
And how many of the medical
Staff at this hospital are islamic
I wonder.
Doesn't matter how they
Go about it , they always get their way.
on 11-10-2015 10:24 PM
on 11-10-2015 10:48 PM
on 11-10-2015 10:50 PM
Or lack of. Robert Frost was a genius with that,