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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy primary care doctor is a Pakistani Muslim.
I just got back from my annual Medicare Wellness Checkup. I hadn't seen my doctor since last year's checkup. So, my he walked into the exam room. We shook hands. The first question he asked was "How are your parents doing?" There's nothing on my chart about them, but I told him last year that they were 92 years old.
Damned Muslims! They're keeping track of us, you know. So, I told him, "They're still with us, at 93 years of age."
"You have good genes." So, I asked about his mother, who is in a memory care unit nearby. He said she was doing OK, but getting worse. I sympathized with him. He said, "Yes, I remember that your wife's mother died last year."
Then, he did the exam, renewed my prescriptions and said, "Well, you seem to be in as good health as last year. See you a year from now."
So far, this man has been the best primary care doctor I have had at anytime in my life. I've seen him for other things, and he is a good diagnostician, a very thoughtful person, and is pretty much what you want in a primary care physician.
But, damnit! He's one of them Muslim immigrants.
Archae
(46,335 posts)He's originally from Poland.
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)riversedge
(70,242 posts)are silent--complacent with what is happening on so many levels. My solution is to have MORE and a variety of Democrats on TV around the clock. A few are on but limited in variety. IMHO
dhol82
(9,353 posts)He doesnt even speak Polish.
It evidently goes back to some teenage shenanigans that he did at 17. They were supposedly sealed. How did ICE find them?
Cant their congressman do something?
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Archae
(46,335 posts)If Trump put out the goose-steppers orders to round up and deport (or imprison) any Muslim, would they refuse?
Hell no.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)It should prevent any arrest, too. Frankly, if I were naturalized citizen, I would carry my naturalization papers with me, particularly if I were a non-white person or had a strong accent. I shouldn't have to, but I would, just to keep mistakes from happening.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)crazy Christians...got a Trumpette Christian neighbor always trying to stuff her religion down my throat..
bdamomma
(63,868 posts)out of control, throwing people out the US or being held in deportation facilities this is not America.
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)bdamomma
(63,868 posts)we are imploding this needs to be stopped.
ismnotwasm
(41,989 posts)Is a teaching hospital and has many healthcare professionals who are Muslim. Its also one of those hospitals that takes more than its share of distressedand diverse populations. We use interpreter services all the time, for everything from Spanish to Marshallese.
Its a place full of humans.
The trend I like, being one of them feminists, is the number of women who are in medicine, in surgery, in specialties. A certain number of these are, of course, Muslim, and a certain number of them choose to wear the Hijab. I havent seen one speck of lack of skill or assertiveness due to this. I didnt expect any.
True Dough
(17,305 posts)Not just here at the DU, but on various discussion forums, and, heaven forbid, in the comments under news stories. Immigrants serve in many critical roles in our society, including physicians, and they often do the job commendably. Yet we so often hear from rednecks about how they're a threat and need to be deported.
Enjoy your bill of good health, MM.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)and women who fill all those crucial roles in our lives so well. We all experience diversity daily as we go about our daily interactions. All of those people are primarily defined as just people in various professions, not where they come from or what they look like. They are people we know and trust, from the Somali cab driver who brought me home from the airport and with whom I had a good conversation to our healthcare professionals and many, many others. It's not what category they fit into are but who they are as people that is important.
I think most of us realize that for those we encounter and who do something for us. It's all the rest of the people we see and judge based on the wrong things that we need to think about more often.
True Dough
(17,305 posts)and frustrates me, is the number of immigrants working entry-level jobs (sometimes two or three of those jobs to provide for their families) while holding credentials as engineers, doctors/nurses, scientists, etc. I realize the education they received in their home countries isn't always equivalent to what they would have received in America, but it seems that better programs are needed to facilitate their ability to become certified in the U.S. without forcing them to start over again. This is especially true in occupations where there are a shortage of professionals.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)He's one of the best in this country! Sorry Chump and Miller! Stereotype FAIL!
BumRushDaShow
(129,085 posts)mine hails from one of the Nigerian huts!
(but he is Christian - like most from southern Nigeria)