Washington, November 25: Doctors in US, including Indian-origin doctors have sharply criticised Republican US presidential candidate Herman Cain. He has been criticised over his remarks that he was worried about being treated by a doctor who “sounded too foreign”. Sixty-six-year-old Cain was talking about his battle with Sage IV colon cancer in 2006. Speaking at The Holy Land Experience, a religious-themed theme park in Orlando, Florida over the weekend, he told supporters that he was concerned that one of the surgeons working with him in the chemotherapy process was named Dr Abdallah. He told a physician’s assistant that the name sounded “too foreign.” He then expressed relief when he was told that the physician was a Christian from Lebanon, and not Muslim. Cain’s press office was not immediately available for a comment. He was also criticised earlier this year after he said he wouldn’t be ‘comfortable’ in appointing Muslims to his Cabinet if he is elected to the White House, but later backtracked to insist he meant extremists. An influential body representing the powerful group of Indian American physicians has termed his remarks as insulting. “Cain’s latest remarks are completely insulting to physicians of Indian-origin across America,” said Dr Sunita Kanumury, president of American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), which in a statement strongly condemned the remarks made by Cain. “It doesn’t matter to a physician what race, religion or creed their patient belongs to. All they care about is providing the best health care possible to them. Similarly, our patients don’t care about our race and religion. What they want is the highest quality health care from the best doctor of their choice,” said Kanumury.
Indian-origin doctors in US criticise presidential candidate Herman Cain
Washington, November 25: Doctors in US, including Indian-origin doctors have sharply criticised Republican US presidential candidate Herman Cain. He has been criticised over his remarks that he was worried about being treated by a doctor who “sounded too foreign”. Sixty-six-year-old Cain was talking about his battle with Sage IV colon cancer in 2006. Speaking at The Holy Land Experience, a religious-themed theme park in Orlando, Florida over the weekend, he told supporters that he was concerned that one of the surgeons working with him in the chemotherapy process was named Dr Abdallah. He told a physician’s assistant that the name sounded “too foreign.” He then expressed relief when he was told that the physician was a Christian from Lebanon, and not Muslim. Cain’s press office was not immediately available for a comment. He was also criticised earlier this year after he said he wouldn’t be ‘comfortable’ in appointing Muslims to his Cabinet if he is elected to the White House, but later backtracked to insist he meant extremists. An influential body representing the powerful group of Indian American physicians has termed his remarks as insulting. “Cain’s latest remarks are completely insulting to physicians of Indian-origin across America,” said Dr Sunita Kanumury, president of American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), which in a statement strongly condemned the remarks made by Cain. “It doesn’t matter to a physician what race, religion or creed their patient belongs to. All they care about is providing the best health care possible to them. Similarly, our patients don’t care about our race and religion. What they want is the highest quality health care from the best doctor of their choice,” said Kanumury.