Unfortunately this man gives medicine a black eye. Some people go into the field for all the wrong reasons. He obviously did. Everyone should avoid him like the plague and put him out of business.

Actually... After just reading the article on CNN about Obama's 17 minute answer to a healthcare question- This is exactly what I expect and this doctor wont be the only one. Obamacare- as stated in his answer- is going to pay doctors a whole lot less and expect them to work twice as much. How would you feel if it wasn't happening to doctors but to other professions.. such as lawyers or police officers. As someone who has billed for medical offices and attorney's offices.. a lot of those charges are substantiated because doctors need to review and tests need to be updated from time to time.

The democrats expressed their pleasure with the healthcare reform package and used their control to push it through. This doctor is expressing his displeasure with the package and exercising what semblance of control he has. What's the difference?

I always had trouble distinguishing the Hippocratic Oath from the Hypocisry Oath. Thanks, doc, for clearing up something I have been wondering for about 50 years now; there are doctors who are not in the field to help people. I suppose I get premium care for a lower price if I like Sarah Palin and watch Glenn Beck? Yeah, God forbid I should not support the President of the United States, my Commnader-in-Chief, and a key leader in the free world. Please move to China, and in your new practice, you can announce you won't treat citizens who voted for...(wait for it)...

"Ethics" is a system of moral values. I fail to see it as an issue in this instance. The doctor's stance is a business decision; his explanation is an exercise in free speech. Is he the only urologist in Florida? Or is he the only one who can provide premium care, as one poster stated?

Doctors turn patients away all the time. Every doctor doesn't accept every insurance. I've got a news for Obamacare, the US might get 32 million more people covered by some type of insurance but that doesn't mean doctors will accept all of those insurances. I work with Medicaid and many of those patients have a really hard time finding care even though they have insurance.

This doctor should be ashamed of himself. As a doctor, his/her first priority should be taking care of patients and not their pocketbooks. Specialists in this country get paid way too much anyway.

To the above poster saying "specialist get paid way too much anyway"....As a current 4th year medical student who has so far spent 4 years in undergrad 4 years in medical school and is now going to spend another 5 yrs in a surgical residency (grand total 13 years after high school) I am also $210,000 in debt, I sure as heck better be making a salary above $250,000 a year. That is not "paid too much" by anymeans

Are Dr. Cassell's actions legal under Florida state law? Are they ethical? Is there a medical board that permits this behavior? Does it violate medical ethics?

It would obviously be unethical, and probably illegal, to put a sign on your door reading, "If you are Black, Jewish or Catholic, seek urologic care elsewhere."

Why is it any different if you're doing the same thing---refusing to treat people who need medical care---based on a person's voting or political beliefs? Aren't you still refusing to treat human beings in violation of basic decency and medical ethics?

In their arguments against health care reform, Republicans claimed that conservative voters would be denied health care based on their politics. It was a chilling thought for me because I thought it indicated their desire and willingness to do just that to liberal voters. I feel that I have been proven right.

This is just what is wrong with medicine in America -- arrogant doctors who make too much money. If he turns away patients and things turn bad for him economically, then he will learn a lesson when he needs to beg people to forgive him, and to seek his professional services, because he needs the money. Not that that will happen in America, but it makes my point -- pampered doctors who want to make money, and don't care about the Hippocratic oath. Shame on him.

I think the doctor's sign is delightful! I would be one of those people who would read it and immediately leave to find another doctor. The sign says a lot about the doctor and who would want to be treated by a physician who has chosen to be one of the many Republicans putting up a collective temper tantrum because a black man is at the helm? Because there is help for the poor coming? Not me. Thank you doctor, I would say, for announcing your idiocy . . . I'll be moving on to another..