# "Methodist" and "Baptist" hospitals **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 2, 2022, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/methodist-and-baptist-hospitals/965568 "2022-06-02T13:47:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/methodist-and-baptist-hospitals/965568/61 "2022-06-03T20:49:59Z")
Whenever I see a church sign saying something like “St. John’s Lutheran”, my first thought is always “How do YOU know?” ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/methodist-and-baptist-hospitals/965568/62 "2022-06-03T21:04:36Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > [St Eligius] was the patron saint of goldsmiths and veterinarians. Oh. that makes it obvious. It started off as an animal hospital. ---
**Author:** ![banjopatterson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@banjopatterson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/banjopatterson)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/methodist-and-baptist-hospitals/965568/63 "2022-06-04T04:30:37Z")
Since my cancer diagnosis four years ago I’m a regular at the Catholic Overbrook Hospital in Chiang Rai, Thailand. Excellent service and treatment, my wife’s been in there once as well. So they take Buddhists and Atheists. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/methodist-and-baptist-hospitals/965568/64 "2022-06-04T13:18:10Z")
Any separation of church/state issues with the religious-affiliated hospitals? Specifically, as an EMT, I took lots of patients to our various local hospitals, including one, since closed, that began with the name “Mercy” & had big crosses all over the place. Some of those were patients were involved in MVAs (car accidents) & were thought to be impaired; they couldn’t perform field sobriety tests because of said injuries. If court houses can’t even have 10 Commandments on the lawn I always wondered about a blood test under duress (1 yr license suspension if you refuse) or w/o consent (if the cop gets a search warrant) under the watchful eyes of a 1’ tall dude hanging on a cross on the wall could potentially cause any issues of evidence suppression later on if one got a lawyer to argue that angle since there was no reason that the blood draw couldn’t happen at a place that didn’t have Jesus on the wall, like another hospital, county fast-track, or even the local holding cell; all of which were locations that others had it done in. After all, if he can get the objective evidence against you dismisses you’d have a greater likelihood of not being found guilty\* -\*Personally, I think the DUI laws in this country are BS; they should be treated _much_ more harshly than the slap on the wrist that they get. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/methodist-and-baptist-hospitals/965568/65 "2022-06-04T17:48:58Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Any separation of church/state issues with the religious-affiliated hospitals? Sorry, I had to read that three times to get your point/argument – that is one super-long run-on sentence in the second paragraph. If I’m understanding your argument, it’s that someone would have a right to object to a blood draw, being supervised by a law enforcement officer, while they’re being treated in a hospital room with a crucifix on the wall? I’m no constitutional law scholar, but I tend to doubt this would fly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/methodist-and-baptist-hospitals/965568.md?page=3)