Should doctors be allowed to deny care to patients who owe a cancellation fee?

It depends. I can’t comment in that situation because I don’t know how the situation works in your country with medical care.

Overhere I would say yes. Doctors who have private practices should be allowed to refuse care if patients can’t pay. It’s annoying and from working in the pharmacy I have seen how people (young and old) abuse doctors and pharmacists if they are too lenient and just help people.

On the other hand someone in public practice has NO right to do this.

Unless a patient poses a threat to a doctor or the doctor is officially off duty, I don’t feel like the doctor should be allowed to deny any patient medical care (especially not in serious cases). They get paid to work, so they should be doing their job.

In the case you mentioned, it seems extremely unfair to the lady. She didn’t know there was a fine – they should have let her know. I understand that they have procedures, but this is wrong.

Yes. It’s not an emergency room. They are doing their jobs just like everyone else. Bottom line is she owed money. Whatever the money was owed for. And there’s no way she wasnt informed at some point that there is a cancellation fee. All doctors put it in their agreements. Otherwise patients could later claim that they weren’t informed, and blah blah blah. If a person doesnt read the agreement before signing, that’s their fault.

No, it’s against their Hippocratic Oath. If they went into the HC field to make money (more so than help others) they should have become Attorneys

Lol. Uhm where specifically does it state that they will treat patients regardless of whether they are paid or not?