(Debate) Should doctors feel able to practise according to their personal values and beliefs? No.

Julian Savulescu

The Medical Journal of Australia
The Medical Journal of Australia

Abstract
Conscientious objection by doctors, as is commonly practised, is discriminatory medicine. Only a fully justified and publicly accepted set of objective values results in ethical medicine as a proper public service with agreed and justified moral and legal standards to which doctors should be held.


Savulescu J. (Debate) Should doctors feel able to practise according to their personal values and beliefs? No. Med J Aust. 2011 Nov;195(9):497.

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