[spacebandit]

A study for The Annals Of Family Medicine in the United States has concluded that religious doctors care less for poor patients, and that doctors who say they are atheists actually have practices which contain a much greater percentage of poor and underserved patients

Doctors who claim to be religious have more affluent practices.

Considering religions, especially christianity, which i shall single out as this is an american study, and christianity of one shade or another is more prevalent amongst americans.

All have tenets whereby the care for the poor is something all should aspire to - how does it happen that religion is twisted into what we see here by people who take oaths to help people, or does the Hypocratic oath not apply if you can't afford to chip in for your doctors new mansion ?.

Physicians who were more religious in general, as measured by intrinsic religiosity or frequency of attendance at religious services, were much more likely to conceive of the practice of medicine as a calling but not more likely to report practice among the underserved

http://www.annfammed.org/cgi/content/abstract/5/4/353


I shouldn't be suprised by this, if you can deny women access to abortion and reproductive services based on 'religious' belief as has been happening in the United States over the past 7 years, you can deny most anything to anybody.



The quote about rich men, camels and eyes of needles springs into my mind.