1) Who you voted for is a private matter that no one will have to prove anyhow so this guy basically just looks like an idiot.

2) Yes he has the freedom to say stuff that makes him look like said idiot - unless there's a law against that kind of stuff for lawyers and attorneys. I personally don't know if there is so I'm just saying.

I do think the sign is kind of funny though.

It is his practice and what the heck happened to freedom of speech?!

Agreed!

Actually he does not have the right to do this. He does have every right to speak his mind on health care. He also has every right to post a sign stating his own beliefs, but what he does not have the right to do is to tell his patients that if they are supporters of Obama that they should go somewhere else. He's a doctor for God's sake. There are two professions in the United States in the private sector that do not allow for this type of behavior. An attorney and a doctor. Why? Because both professions require that the attorney or doctor remain unbiased toward their clients and patients. So sacred is the relationships between clients and attorneys, patients and doctors that both professions are required to take oaths of their office.

I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.

I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.

This is known as the "Hippocratic Oath", and is a long time tradition that doctors are supposed to honor in order to practice medicine with the highest ethics and best of intentions.

Doctor Jack Cassell should be reprimanded for his lack of ethics. Perhaps it would remind him of his responsibility to not only his patients, but his colleagues, and to the office for which he holds. I would personally ask him "Have you no decency?"

I have to agree with Tomegun. A sex offender is a sex offender. Why should we care how it makes a criminal feel? Why would it discourage them from getting treatment? Treatment should be forced upon a sexual predator in the same manner they forced themselves upon their victims. Punishment is a deterrent for the crime itself. I believe in this. Why should we just give these people a slap on the wrist and make room for the very same type of behavior to be allowed again? I hope it humiliates the hell out of them. Post their pictures online, in the newspaper, on the t.v. for all I care. As long as those they live around are made aware of the fact that they may be living in the vicinity of a sex offender then they can better protect their children. Isn't that what this is all about? Helping to protect those that can't protect themselves?

Isn't a teenage sex offender still a criminal? So someone commits a crime like this and we are supposed to care if they are put on a humiliating path? That is one of our problems in America.

This is an easy one. It is his practice and he has the right to do this. His customers also have the right to go someplace else.

From the following article:

"By Clay Carey, The Tennessean

State lawmakers may create a new online registry that would publicize the names and addresses of teenagers who commit violent sex crimes.

Supporters say it gives parents another layer of protection from predators who target children, but opponents say putting children on a public sex offender registry could stigmatize them and discourage them from seeking treatment. Mental health experts worry that it could put the teens on a humiliating path, leading them to commit more crime.

Some teen sex offenders could remain on the registry for 25 years. "

Link to the article: http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=117649&catid=2

And yes, the image on the left is a actual sex offender in our neck of the woods.

While I share the doctors opinion of health care reform I do think this was in poor taste and will certainly decrease his patients who support the bill but may increase the amount of patients he has who oppose it.

While pondering my position on this one I asked myself how I would feel if this was directed towards former President Bush; I would be a bit disgusted unless it was warranted but I would support the doctors right to freedom of speech and as long as he owned his clinic or had approval to post such a sign I would see nothing wrong with it.

However, I believe all consumers can speak very loudly with their pocket books. If I was offended by this I would seek urology care elsewhere, plain and simple.

For you Florida voters; It's time to get rid of Alan Grayson. He is an elitist who is making a mockery of your state. If I could live in three states at once I'd vote here in Tennessee and I'd cast a ballot in Florida and South Carolina to remove Grayson and Graham from office.

Here is what his sign said, "If you voted for Obama, seek urologic care elsewhere. Changes to your healthcare begin right now, not in four years."

Here's a Fox News article on the doctor and this strange situation:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/05/florida-doctor-stands-anti-obamacare-sign-despite-threat-complaint/?test=latestnews

Yes, I do believe in alien intervention; absolutely, and I know there is plenty of evidence, but it is 'classified' information that no one can access except a very few selected people.

I expect life will go on, but just in case (!) I'm not going Christmas shopping until the 22nd!