The Gay Mafia Strikes Again
Dr. Paul Church, a veteran urologist who has been on the staff of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for nearly 30 years, is appealing a board decision against him, and is planning for a hearing in July on his fight over his right to warn people that the facts prove “gay” sex is a dangerous lifestyle. [1]
The famous Hippocratic Oath is often distilled down to “FIRST DO NO HARM.” For centuries it has been viewed as the most basic principle in the practice of medicine. The physician, the medical specialist, the doctor seeks to do no harm in the conduct of his medical practice. To do so would be counterproductive to the very reason for administering medicine and other forms of treatment.
Here we are in 2015, and a veteran urologist at one of the most prestigious medical institutions in the country has been been admonished for responsibly pointing out the obvious to his patients: That different types of gay sexual activity pose an extraordinarily high risk factor in the transmission of serious disease. The gay community has statistically always been considerably higher than any other demographic in the U.S population for both contracting AIDS and testing HIV positive.
What has changed since the mid 1980s when all medical institutions were obligated to educate the public about the direct correlation between unprotected sexual activity and the deadly disease AIDS. It has always been good public health policy to dutifully inform the public of the dangers associated with both the types of behavior to be avoided, as well as the nature of the diseases which are predominant.
Particularly when any given disease has such a high mortality rate is it the physician’s ethical and professional obligation to properly inform those who have shared their personal behaviors and habits. Doing so is merely a reflection of practicing the vow to “FIRST DO NO HARM.” By withholding such vital information some patients might never hear the hard evidence linkage to AIDS from their doctors. The doctor’s office is often the only setting where a vulnerable candidate for AIDS or HIV would get potentially life-saving information.
Church, who also is a member of the Harvard Medical School Facility and has conducted life-saving research on diagnosing bladder and prostate cancer, told WND, “It is incredible to think they would be able to silence me and revoke my ability to be on the staff as a result of my raising valid health concerns over a risky lifestyle.”[1]
Dr. Church is merely performing his important job the way he has always been trained and educated. He is a specialist in the field and has access to the best scientific research papers on the subject. He also has 30 years plus of edifying experience with patients who have suffered terribly because they ignored whatever the warnings they may have received.
Harvard Medical School and its affiliated Boston hospitals have often been viewed as one of the premier medical training grounds in the country. Typically they set the standard for many categories of healthcare delivery. Why such a respected institution would suddenly execute a reversal of policy is quite alarming since it will undoubtedly influence other institutions as well. Especially when so much hard scientific evidence stacks up on the side of the medical professional in this case is their persecution of the good doctor all the more concerning.
“Although it has declined over the past few decades, two-thirds of all new HIV/AIDS infections in the U.S. are the result of men having sex with men. Fifty percent of ‘gay’ men will be infected with HIV by age 50. Those numbers are out there and they are staggering,” he said.[1]
As a long-practicing urologist, Dr. Church is paid to treat his patients the best way he knows how. The busy medical practitioner who meets with his patients day-to-day is always in the best position to advise and counsel based on face-to-face interviews and annual exams. When test come back indicating that a patient has recently become HIV positive, the doctor has a moral obligation to explore the subject in appropriate detail.
Particularly because of how infectious HIV is, as well as the high fatality rate for AIDS, doctors are duty-bound to discuss the attendant risks for the patients as well as the potential dangers to partners. For that matter all healthcare workers must also be properly trained and informed since they too are at risk working with both AIDS patients and those have tested HIV positive.
Conclusion
Dr. Church is not the one who should be dismissed from his critical frontline position in the unrelenting challenge to eradicate AIDS. Rather, it is the Administration and Medical Director at the Harvard facility — Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center — which requires serious counseling on this matter.
Have they not heard of the Hippocratic Oath?
Source
[1] WND.com