Had the Mormon refused, House would have rightly rejected him for the fellowship spot on his diagnostic team. Being a Doctor means putting the patient above your religious beliefs.

If you cannot do this, do not become a doctor or pharmacist. Thousands of medicines contain alcohol, so if you are Muslim and dispensing those drugs conflicts with your religion, do not become a pharmacist. If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out.

We recall the case last year of a British Muslim pharmacist who put his religion above the welfare of his customers:

Daily Mail,
13 Oct 2006,
Muslim pharmacist refuses to give morning after pill 'on religious grounds'

Worried mum Jo-Ann Thomas was left stunned when [a] Muslim pharmacist refused her a morning after pill on religious grounds.

In the UK, pharmacists do have the right to use their discretion in selling over the counter drugs; however, religious discretion should not be used. The pharmacist should only use medical reasons in refusing to dispense medication.

And just a few days ago:

Fiery Spirited Zionist ,
10 Oct 2007,
Sharia Medicine

In Britain, some Muslim medical students are refusing to attend lectures or answer questions on exams pertaining to sexually transmitted or alcohol-related diseases because it offends their religious beliefs. Some students refuse to treat patients of the opposite sex.
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The GMC said it had received requests for guidance over whether students could "omit parts of the medical curriculum and yet still be allowed to graduate”. Professor Peter Rubin, chairman of the GMC’s education committee, said: "Examples have included a refusal to see patients who are affected by diseases caused by alcohol or sexual activity, or a refusal to examine patients of a particular gender.”

When they become doctors, how will they treat their patients when much of medicine is ignored? How about we train pilots who only know how to fly but not takeoff or land? Oh, wait, we did that once. And how did that work out for us?

It is cases like this that made me write that persons whose religion conflicts with modern medical treatments should not enter the profession and that religious hospitals should be banned, read Muslim Cabbies and Catholic Hospitals.

Related:

Faultline,
9 Oct 2007,
Muslim Pharmacist Refuses to Give Morning After Pill on Religious Grounds

hmmmmmm.....If this were a Christian Pharmacist, they would be crucified by the liberal main stream media.

Times Online,
7 Oct 2007,
Fear of giving offence is killing our culture

A week ago The Sunday Times reported that some Muslim workers in Sainsbury’s are refusing to check out purchases of alcohol on the debatable ground that it’s against their religion. Whenever the sinful stuff is presented by a customer at the till, the Muslim expects an infidel colleague to hurry over and sully his or her hands with the transaction instead.

This is preposterous and a depressing sign of the times. But the painful truth is it would be just as preposterous to blame the Sainsbury’s Muslims. For years now ethnic minorities have been encouraged to insist on their cultural differences and on their human right to have these differences respected and actively promoted. It is hardly surprising that they have responded by doing so. It is those who have encouraged them who are to blame.