Doctor apologizes for headscarf ban

Wächtersbacher doctor apologizes for headscarf ban.

(08.09.2010) With his self-imposed rules that exclude the wearing of headscarves and the treatment of Muslim extended families in his practice, had a Wächtersbacher doctor throughout Germany caused a lot of excitement and criticism. Now the doctor rows back and apologizes to all concerned.

"I am out of tone," the doctor judges his own action retrospectively. Although he could not talk away the problems which were the cause of his attack, today he sees more clearly that he has shot his shot beyond the target and injured people. „I did not intend that“, stressed the doctor.

Headscarves, lack of knowledge of German and problems in the treatment of large families had been cause for the doctor, his so-called „game rules“ to hang out in practice, in your own words „Smoother practice“ to ensure. The rules no longer depend on the practice, but he would like to re-apply them in a revised form, as the treatment issues persist. However, the new version will be submitted to the Turkish-Islamic Cultural Association Wächter Bach, before the „game rules“ decorate the walls of his practice again. Seref Degermenci, chairman of the Turkish-Islamic Cultural Association, emphasized in this regard that the doctor's action was wrong and partly discriminatory, but now dialogue is a priority.

However, the Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Hessen and the Landesärztekammer are not satisfied with such an apology and want to have the case legally reviewed. For the exclusion of sick people from treatment is a violation of the Hippocratic Oath, which is unacceptable. Hard to imagine what would happen if Germans were only treated abroad as soon as they mastered the native language. This has become aware of the Wächtersbacher doctor in the last second, so that he should have removed the rules of the game not least because of the imminent legal consequences. (Fp)

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