Doctor Jack Cassell Tells Obama Supporters To Seek Help Elsewhere

Florida urologist Jack Cassell posted a sign on his office door reading, "If you voted for Obama ... seek urologic care elsewhere. Changes to your health care begin right now, not in four years."

Cassell, a registered Republican, quickly backpedaled in an interview with the Orlando Sentinel, but said he's perfectly happy to lose business over the sign. "I'm not turning anybody away, that would be unethical," he told the Sentinel. "But if they read the sign and turn the other way, so be it."

Patients who continue past the sign on Cassell's door find a waiting room stacked with Republican pamphlets opposing health care reform, underneath a sign reading, "This is what the morons in Washington have done to your health care. Take one, read it and vote out anyone who voted for it."

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) told the Sentinel he was "disgusted" by Cassell's behavior.

"Maybe he thinks the Hippocratic Oath says, 'Do no good'," Grayson said. "If this is the face of the right wing in America, it's the face of cruelty. ... Why don't they change the name of the Republican Party to the Sore Loser Party?"

UPDATE: MyFoxOrlando.com has posted an on-camera interview with Dr. Cassell. Here are a few key clips:

Dr. Cassell responds to charges that his sign is unethical, and says "this bill wants you to die sooner."

Dr. Cassell asked, "Would it make patients uncomfortable?"

For more video, click here.

Comments

[blinkin357]

12:19 PM on 05/26/2010

I'm VERY impressed with Dr. Cassell's willingness to express his opinion about Obamacare. I happen to agree with him and made an appointment with him as my new urologist. His professional record is impressive and I have full confidence in his medical care. I would love to help Dr. Cassell take Alan Grayson's seat in Congress. I need a good doctor but America needs more men like Dr. Cassell in Washington even more.

[thomas k]

07:33 PM on 04/16/2010

good for him. We need more like him. free speach obama.

[Rooster Coburn]

03:02 AM on 04/10/2010

Multiple choice question.
If a patient went to Doctor Cassell for the treatment of kidney stones would they be called:

A. "Freedom Stones"
B. "Liberty Stones"
C. "Patriot Stones"
D. All or any of the above.

[feedupwithgovernment]

02:46 AM on 04/10/2010

As Grayson has already discovered, a spokesperson for the Florida Medical Board has already said that he did not violate any rules and they do not intend to take action against the doctor. The AMA does not license doctors and doctors do not have to be members of the AMA and a large number are not members.
This doctor does not have to accept any new patients. No doctor does.
You will be seeing more and more Providers opt-out of Medicaid and Medicare, that is a fact . There is nothing that requires any doctor to accept health insurance payments toward a patients care. They can require payment of the total charges upfront.
If they are not paid enough to cover overhead and make the profit they deserve, they may ultimately accept cash only. I hope more doctors voice their disatisfaction with the new legislation.

[TrurhHurtz]

06:32 PM on 04/11/2010

We try, but all they do here is scream " Hippocratic Oath" and that they want to destroy you if you don't agree with them. Sorta like Stalin.

[Loni Wolf]

11:20 PM on 04/11/2010

We can only hope that decent people of all politcal stripes boycott him . " As the Irish philoshopher Edmund Burke said in the 16th century "All that is neccesary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing". What Dr. Cassel (graudate of a medical school in Grenada- could not get into one is the US, Canada or Mexico) did was not illegal, but egregious nonetheless,
Drs are accorded a special status in our society. They are held to a higher standard of conduct as a result . Unlike most professions, they have an oath that is over 4,000 years old,

The elderly will be FAR better off if Dr. Cassell refuses to take Medicare., He only got into the profession & became a specialist for the love of money ,- not for the love of medicine. Personally, I wouldn't have Cassell as my VET.
. He's entitled to his opinions, but NOT to compromise patient care consciously or unconsciously. Politics belongs OUT of a Drs office. Any patients that see political phamplets of ANY kind- right OR left should run for the hills as they are NOT dealing with a medical professional. Out of the office they can lobby, support candidates & causes of their choosing- it is their right as citizens. The majority position on this board is that Politcs DOES NOT belong in his office & interacting with patient care.

[happyascanbe]

11:53 PM on 04/08/2010

Why would anyone republican or democrat want this creepy looking guy waiting on you. I hope his practice is shut down. Please people go elsewhere.

[blinkin357]

12:22 PM on 05/26/2010

Because Dr. Cassell's medical record demonstrates that he is an exceptional physician who can effectively care for patients like me. I just made my first appointment with his office.

[Lala999]

02:09 AM on 04/07/2010

I wouldn't go to this ignorant slob anyway. He looks like he just rolled out of bed and hasn't bothered to bathe.

[blinkin357]

12:24 PM on 05/26/2010

What doctor looks spectacular in surgical scrubs. What a STUPID assessment you made out of your own ignorance about the medical profession.

[pyradius]

01:28 AM on 04/07/2010

While he obviously cannot prove who someone voted for, if he expects people to read his sign and be honest about it, then he is in a sense turning people away.

You can say Grayson is being extreme in his example, but it is in a sense discrimination.

If he hung up a sign that said "Blacks seek treatment elsewhere" and then went on record to say "Well I wouldn't actually turn a black person away in need", what would you say to that?

[blinkin357]

12:29 PM on 05/26/2010

Actually you make a point because we all discriminate and are allowed to do so under the Constitution. You could say no blacks in your business but you'd just lose sales that way. You discriminate against all black women if you married a white woman. What's wrong with that? NOTHING is wrong with that. The government cannot discriminate in schools, etc, but we as free individuals can do so without your proposed control of FREE SPEECH that is clearly spelled out in the Constitution. Dr. Cassell has the right to express his opinion just like you and me.

[Skool Boiz dot com]

12:53 AM on 04/07/2010

Now there is an L.A. doctor who won't treat Palin supporters.
http://www.thesattirenews.blogspot.com/

[Lala999]

02:11 AM on 04/07/2010

That's funny. I had never heard of the Sat Tire news. I love good satire, no butts about it!

[Loni Wolf]

08:53 PM on 04/09/2010

Don't you know SATIRE when you see it?? it means per Webster's dictionary" n :Irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity." The Dr's name was "Seymour Butts" a proctologist from "asstonia". If you can't recognize this as a joke, you are in deep trouble,

[carllyaztremski]

10:06 PM on 04/06/2010

Whst is this guy thinking? He has his right to his opinions but not to discriminate against patients depending on whatever he feels like. Not about ideology but about charachter.

http://www.forexyard.com/en/news/SPECIAL-REPORT-Insurer-targeted-HIV-patients-to-drop-coverage-2010-03-17T133338Z

[blinkin357]

12:33 PM on 05/26/2010

Actually Dr. Cassell and all of us have the RIGHT to discriminate as individuals or businesses. Only government agencies cannot discriminate under our Constitution.

[mgray34]

04:55 PM on 04/06/2010

It's funny HOW far the rabbit hole the right has fallen when they try to defend what this guy did. Yes he has freedom of speech, but that does not make him RIGHT.

It is wrong to tell people to go elsewhere to get care just because they didn't vote for the guy HE voted for. What if we all treated people like that. I am so sick of the right whining that we're number one this, and we're number one that. What we need to do is take a good look in the mirror to see where we rank in how we treat EACH OTHER.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong. When we as a society can't agree on that irregardless of party, then WE ARE IN BIG TROUBLE...

[blinkin357]

12:36 PM on 05/26/2010

Who are you to say what is "right" anyway. I thought that this was a nation of laws so our opinions of right are of little significance except for people like you who think that your opinions are the only RIGHT ones.

[mgray34]

03:15 PM on 05/26/2010

Obviously, your reading comprehension must be off, because you missed the whole point of what I said, and since you apparently are defending this guy, that tells me all I need to know about the type of person YOU are, so I'm not gonna waste time trying to reason with you.

[Wasp35]

02:29 PM on 04/06/2010

No surprise here. Grayson loves to intimidate his political opponents with threats of prosecution when they exercise their free speech rights. He wrote a letter to US Attorney General Eric Holder, demanding that the founder of the website mycongressmanisnuts.com be prosecuted and imprisoned for five years. He can go on the House floor and accuse Republicans of wanting Americans to "die early," but if you so much as look at him sideways, he'll sic the Attorney General on you. He looooooooves freedom. http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2009/12/grayson-wants-to-send-critic-to-jail-for-five-years.html

[Lala999]

02:14 AM on 04/07/2010

This is relevant how?

[blinkin357]

12:47 PM on 05/26/2010

I talked with the lady who is running against Grayson in the upcoming election. She's a very nice mom with both feet on the ground and a commitment to make a difference in Washington. I'm sure that she will do a great job but I pray for her to hold up when Grayson starts his atypical vicious attacks on her very existence. I've worked with predator lawyers like Grayson before and they are HORRIBLE excuses for public servants.

[tahoegal]

02:16 PM on 04/06/2010

When I read about this guy being in Mt. Dora FL I wasn't surprised - not an informed or a particularly intellectual community. My question is, does the Waterman hospital for whom he works (an Adventist hospital), approve of his bias? Do they approve of his rant on Fox stating that "old people would no longer be able to go to nursing homes" - that "hospice would be cut and old people would die in pain"? This guy should be kicked to the curb for trying to scare seniors - he isn't upholding his oath to "do no harm".

[lmj1000]

02:00 PM on 04/06/2010

Even though his comments are controversial, please don't deprive this man his freedom to declare his ideas. Please respect his stance. He has not commited a crime and he has not denied service to anyone.

Regardless of ideology, we need to be considerate of others and their opinions. Intimidation and retaliation are the tools of rigid and simple thinkers.

[Lala999]

02:18 AM on 04/07/2010

Intimidation and retaliation are the tools of rigid and simple thinkers? Then perhaps you should be telling him that.

[heathyrlynn]

01:45 AM on 04/09/2010

Are you serious? Should we not deprive people of saying they won't service blacks, whites, hispanics, asians, homosexuals, women, etc? so its ok now to discriminate? as long as you get to have your freedom to declare your ideas that is. Wow... how far back did we just go?

[HaroldF45]

12:19 PM on 04/06/2010

This freak has probably never heard of the Hippocratic Oath...
Whatever his political opinions, no patient should be criticised for his personal choices; in Europe this so-called 'doctor' would be prosecuted! & quite rightly in my opinion!

[CDWoods]

10:20 AM on 04/06/2010

The doctor is just following the ethical guideline of the NEW Hippocratic oath:

"First do no harm, but even before that, determine party affiliation"