re: #130 researchok

But can’t he/she choose not to assume an individual as a patient?

Not for those reasons, no.

Look, it’s like this: California is an at-will employment state. That means my company could fire me at any moment for no reason at all.

However, if they fired me the instant I informed them that I had AIDS, it would be trivial to show they’d fired me because of a medical condition— and that’s a protected class.

A physician could arbitrarily refuse to take a patient, but could not specifically discriminate against blacks.