Red vs. Blue

Here’s a cute item from the front page of Hurriet, a major Turkish newspaper, from last month, showing the culture wars here:
A Shepard from Konya arrived at a hospital “with severe pain and swelling in his testicles. An immediate ultrasound scan was requested, but radiologist xx refused to carry out the scan because examining male reproductive organs ran against her religious convictions. The patient was kept waiting until the morning, when Dr. yy showed up... unfortunately another headscarf-wearing woman… the 17-year-old patient only received a scan in the afternoon, when a male specialist arrived at the hospital. Doctors then operated on the young man, suffering from a condition called testicular torsion, and removed his left testis, which would almost certainly have been saved had the patient not lost one day at the hospital…” (not that the newspaper has an opinion on this rather racy story).
Sort of reminds me of American pharmacists who won’t fill prescriptions for birth control…