Discrimination

 Yet more news from the asylum across the water with a lunatic in charge.

Trump has issued an order that medical staff in the veteran's administration, the government organisation that looks after ex servicemen, can deny treatment to any patient who supports the democratic party.

That would be like a British doctor being allowed to refuse treatment to a patient because they voted labour.

Where do I start? Trump obviously has no idea how the medical profession works. Most doctors would be bemused by the suggestion that we should even know a patient's political affiliation. In his entire career DZ never once asked a patient their political or religious views, and I don't suppose the vast majority of my colleagues would either.

I think Trump should be told "Hippocrates would like a word"

For all it's faults I can't imagine for a moment the GMC tolerating such a practice. Any doctor who did this would, rightly, find himself in hot water very quickly.

The USA doesn't have an equivalent of the GMC, a nationwide regulatory body. Such regulation is devolved to individual states as "State Medical Boards." In normal times I'm sure that these boards would oppose this idea rigorously. 

But, in case you hadn't noticed, the times we are living in are far from normal, and full of surprises.