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MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:02 AM Jan 2018

My 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.

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My primary care doctor is a Pakistani Muslim. (Original Post) MineralMan Jan 2018 OP
I just read an article here at DU about a white doctor being deported, after living here since 1979. Archae Jan 2018 #1
ICE is out of control. These abuses need to be exposed. IluvPitties Jan 2018 #2
I think they are being exposed but could be amplified. Yet, Republicans riversedge Jan 2018 #7
He was 4 or 5 years old when brought here by his parents. dhol82 Jan 2018 #5
I read that also, heartbreaking. dewsgirl Jan 2018 #13
Well, mine is a naturalized citizen. MineralMan Jan 2018 #14
You think that matters to Trump? Archae Jan 2018 #16
Yes, it matters. It matters in court. MineralMan Jan 2018 #17
I'm more worried about these HipChick Jan 2018 #3
ICE is bdamomma Jan 2018 #4
No, this is Russia in America via Trump. IluvPitties Jan 2018 #6
Putin must love all this bdamomma Jan 2018 #10
The hospital I work at ismnotwasm Jan 2018 #8
There are not near enough posts like these True Dough Jan 2018 #9
I agree. We all need to speak up for the immigrants, racial minorities MineralMan Jan 2018 #15
What astounds me True Dough Jan 2018 #18
My oncologist is also. MoonRiver Jan 2018 #11
As I had mentioned to you earlier BumRushDaShow Jan 2018 #12

Archae

(46,335 posts)
1. I just read an article here at DU about a white doctor being deported, after living here since 1979.
Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:07 AM
Jan 2018

He's originally from Poland.

riversedge

(70,242 posts)
7. I think they are being exposed but could be amplified. Yet, Republicans
Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:16 AM
Jan 2018

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)
5. He was 4 or 5 years old when brought here by his parents.
Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:14 AM
Jan 2018

He doesn’t 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?
Can’t their congressman do something?

Archae

(46,335 posts)
16. You think that matters to Trump?
Mon Jan 22, 2018, 12:30 PM
Jan 2018

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)
17. Yes, it matters. It matters in court.
Mon Jan 22, 2018, 12:37 PM
Jan 2018

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)
3. I'm more worried about these
Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:11 AM
Jan 2018

crazy Christians...got a Trumpette Christian neighbor always trying to stuff her religion down my throat..

bdamomma

(63,868 posts)
4. ICE is
Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:12 AM
Jan 2018

out of control, throwing people out the US or being held in deportation facilities this is not America.

ismnotwasm

(41,989 posts)
8. The hospital I work at
Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:16 AM
Jan 2018

Is a teaching hospital and has many healthcare professionals who are Muslim. It’s also one of those hospitals that takes more than it’s share of distressed—and diverse populations. We use interpreter services all the time, for everything from Spanish to Marshallese.

It’s 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 haven’t seen one speck of lack of skill or assertiveness due to this. I didn’t expect any.

True Dough

(17,305 posts)
9. There are not near enough posts like these
Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:17 AM
Jan 2018

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)
15. I agree. We all need to speak up for the immigrants, racial minorities
Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:51 AM
Jan 2018

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)
18. What astounds me
Mon Jan 22, 2018, 02:21 PM
Jan 2018

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.

BumRushDaShow

(129,085 posts)
12. As I had mentioned to you earlier
Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:20 AM
Jan 2018

mine hails from one of the Nigerian huts!

(but he is Christian - like most from southern Nigeria)

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