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I was asked for my religion today..

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    #92
    XxMCRxBabyxX
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    gurramok wrote: »
    Why ask it only in a hospital on a non-life threatening examination?

    Why not ask it in a dentist?

    Because a dentist doesn't care about your hospital records.
    The hospital is keeping your records updated so the next time you come in you don't need to answer more questions. It's quite simple administration practice tbh


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    #93
    gurramok
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    starbelgrade wrote: »
    I presume that hospitals share a database, whereas dentists don't.

    Why not?

    A Dentist drilling a hole in my mouth can be fatal so why not ask my religion for my last rites?:confused:


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    #94
    starbelgrade
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    gurramok wrote: »
    Why not?

    A Dentist drilling a hole in my mouth can be fatal so why not ask my religion for my last rites?:confused:

    If a dentist drilled a hole in your mouth, you'd be taken to hospital, where they would ask you what religion you are.


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    #95
    Ghost Estate
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    gurramok wrote: »
    Why not?

    A Dentist drilling a hole in my mouth can be fatal so why not ask my religion for my last rites?:confused:

    Because he could just keep drilling and save himself the trouble


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    #96
    lmaopml
    Registered Users Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭lmaopml


    Because if you lose your teeth, you'll just have a gummy smile :D


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    #97
    gurramok
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    XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »
    Because a dentist doesn't care about your hospital records.
    The hospital is keeping your records updated so the next time you come in you don't need to answer more questions. It's quite simple administration practice tbh

    So you base it on records, a dentist should care as after all they use a drill against my head. That can be fatal :eek:


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    #98
    Sardonicat
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    I've just explained why! Updating your records for future reference, thats all. Unlikely the dentist will need to know. Possible the hospital will. Simple as.

    No conspiracy, no-one gives a **** what you believe but they do want to have your personal beliefs (theist or atheist) respected in a situation that you would not be able to express them. What on earth is wrong with that?


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    #99
    XxMCRxBabyxX
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    gurramok wrote: »
    Why not?

    A Dentist drilling a hole in my mouth can be fatal so why not ask my religion for my last rites?:confused:

    Because they would then send you to a hospital who would have your religion on file so they could then find someone to administer your last rites. A dentist would not let you die in his office, he would send you for treatment.

    Your arguing against a very simple and logical practice.

    And in response to the deathbed question. People change their minds in certain situations, happened to my father when I was sick


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    #100
    starbelgrade
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    gurramok wrote: »
    So you base it on records, a dentist should care as after all they use a drill against my head. That can be fatal :eek:

    Holy crap... I feel like drilling a hole in your head now... you stubborn git!!! :D


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    #101
    XxMCRxBabyxX
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    gurramok wrote: »
    So you base it on records, a dentist should care as after all they use a drill against my head. That can be fatal :eek:

    Should something happen they would send you to a hospital


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    #102
    Sardonicat
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    gurramok wrote: »
    So you base it on records, a dentist should care as after all they use a drill against my head. That can be fatal :eek:
    That post explains a great deal.


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    #103
    gurramok
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    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Holy crap... I feel like drilling a hole in your head now... you stubborn git!!! :D
    XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »
    Should something happen they would send you to a hospital

    I wouldn't be able to speak?!:)


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    #104
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,352 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    gurramok wrote: »
    Are you taking the mick?

    I was in to get a nonlife threatening examination and there was no need to ask my religion unless the doctors planned to kill me! :mad:
    Hospitals keep files on people and its best to keep a single file, not a new file for each complaint / procedure. Who knows, the next time you are admitted, maybe it will be life threatening.


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    #105
    XxMCRxBabyxX
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    gurramok wrote: »
    I wouldn't be able to speak?!:)

    And they would already have your religion on your records considering you've just told the fracture clinic. :P

    And if they didn't you would be considered an emergency patient and either try contact a family member to fill in the forms for you or try care for you and get you to fill in the forms later


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    #106
    Sardonicat
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    gurramok wrote: »
    I wouldn't be able to speak?!:)
    Unconscious /dead people generally have difficulty communicating. Were you not aware of that?


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    #107
    bronte
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    starbelgrade wrote: »
    That sounds like hell to me... full of hippies, crusties & hipsters. :p

    Ah...this Glastonbury is "golden pass" Glastonbury.
    You don't get any of that shite there...and it has actual toilets.


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    #108
    lmaopml
    Registered Users Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭lmaopml


    robinph wrote: »
    If they don't want treating then get out of the hospital.

    Is the hospital only for 'special' people with a specific ideology? I'm by no means J.W. love modern science and advancements in medical science, but it doesn't come at a 'cost' of signing away the patients whole person, and saying fcuk that they're in 'hospital' now I own them..

    That's the idea of signing the damn form and the docs nurses etc. knowing exactly how to deal with said patient, if it becomes life or death it moves to another level, but it's just a 'form' when you are admitted no?


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    #109
    slimjimmc
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    gurramok wrote: »
    Why ask it only in a hospital on a non-life threatening examination?

    Why not ask it in a dentist?

    Dentists don't have chaplains, hospitals do, so it's standard procedure for them.


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    #110
    Ghost Estate
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    I'm part vegetarian!


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    #111
    gurramok
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    Victor wrote: »
    Hospitals keep files on people and its best to keep a single file, not a new file for each complaint / procedure. Who knows, the next time you are admitted, maybe it will be life threatening.

    Eh, you saying something here?!
    XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »
    And they would already have your religion on your records considering you've just told the fracture clinic. :P

    And if they didn't you would be considered an emergency patient and either try contact a family member to fill in the forms for you or try care for you and get you to fill in the forms later

    It was a non-life threatening procedure!
    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Unconscious /dead people generally have difficulty communicating. Were you not aware of that?

    No.
    slimjimmc wrote: »
    Dentists don't have chaplains, hospitals do, so it's standard procedure for them.

    Why don't dentist have chaplains, drilling into someone's head is freakily scary!


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    #112
    Misanthrope
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    next time you're asked ,make up a bizarre religion and explain it in depth to them.Make them sorry for asking


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    #113
    Ghost Estate
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    gurramok wrote: »
    It was a non-life threatening procedure!

    In Soviet Russia, life threatens you!


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    #114
    lmaopml
    Registered Users Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭lmaopml


    gurramok wrote: »
    Eh, you saying something here?!



    It was a non-life threatening procedure!



    No.



    Why don't dentist have chaplains, drilling into someone's head is freakily scary!

    Be scared, be very scared mwah ha ha...

    ..just sign the damn form!


    lol..


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    #115
    Sardonicat
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    gurramok, if your dentist is drilling into your head instead of your teeth it explains why you seem incapable of understanding why a hospital would ask what your religious beliefs are for future reference. Are you sure your dentist didn't ask you what religion you are, maybe s/he hates atheists, or is a boardsie, maybe?


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    #116
    gurramok
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    Sardonicat wrote: »
    gurramok, if your dentist is drilling into your head instead of your teeth it explains why you seem incapable of understanding why a hospital would ask what your religious beliefs are for future reference. Are you sure your dentist didn't ask you what religion you are, maybe s/he hates atheists, or is a boardsie, maybe?

    Hey, i ain't gonna suffer extreme pain for no reason?!

    If a dentist who drills into my head never asks me my last rites, what hope is there?!


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    #117
    Tin Foil Hat
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    orourkeda wrote: »
    People may object to certain treatments on religous grounds so on that basis the hospital may ask in order to know how best to proceed.

    "How best to proceed" is a medical consideration, not a religious one.
    I have no major objection to this question being asked of a adult (Adults who jeopardise their health on religious grounds being potential recipients of a Darwin Award).
    However, I know from experience that this question is also asked of parents on behalf of their kids. It is disturbing that the health of children is put at risk because of the superstitious beliefs of their parents.


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    #118
    drkpower
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    Tin Foil Hat wrote: »
    It is disturbing that the health of children is put at risk because of the superstitious beliefs of their parents.

    It isnt. In life saving/health-preserving situations, doctors are entitled & obliged to over-ride a parents wishes.


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    #119
    Sardonicat
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    Gurramock, when you wake up tomorow, go and make another dental appointment. Their is obviously some more drilling to be done.:rolleyes:


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    #120
    gurramok
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    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Gurramock, when you wake up tomorow, go and make another dental appointment. Their is obviously some more drilling to be done.:rolleyes:

    Huh?

    My head is fine thanks :P :)


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    #121
    Tin Foil Hat
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    drkpower wrote: »
    It isnt. In life saving/health-preserving situations, doctors are entitled & obliged to over-ride a parents wishes.

    In recent years doctors have had to go to court to get permission to give certain medical procedures (bloods transfusions/transplants) to children of Jehovahs Witnesses.


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