{"id":11850,"date":"2008-09-11T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=11850"},"modified":"2023-01-28T11:00:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T19:00:55","slug":"military-medical-ethics-physician-first-last-always","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=11850","title":{"rendered":"Military Medical Ethics &#8211; Physician First, Last, Always"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">George J Annas<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"190\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nejm.jpg\" alt=\"New England Journal of Medicine, NEJM\" class=\"wp-image-11214\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">New England Journal of Medicine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Extract<\/strong><br>The chair of the President&#8217;s Council on Bioethics, Edmund Pellegrino, has insisted that medical ethics are and must be the same for civilian and military physicians, \u201cexcept in the most extreme contingencies.\u201d There is no special medical ethics for active-duty military physicians any more than there is for Veterans Affairs physicians, National Guard physicians, public health physicians, prison physicians, or managed care physicians. The only question is whether there are \u201cextreme contingencies\u201d that justify physicians&#8217; suspension of their medical\u2013ethical obligations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Annas GJ. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMp0805975\">Military Medical Ethics &#8211; Physician First, Last, Always<\/a>. N Engl J Med. 2008;1087-1090. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George J Annas ExtractThe chair of the President&#8217;s Council on Bioethics, Edmund Pellegrino, has insisted that medical ethics are and must be the same for civilian and military physicians, \u201cexcept in the most extreme contingencies.\u201d There is no special medical ethics for active-duty military physicians any more than there is for Veterans Affairs physicians, National &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=11850\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Military Medical Ethics &#8211; Physician First, Last, Always&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[554,2,1565],"tags":[1075,1072],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-11850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-journal-article","category-military-medicine","tag-edmund-pellegrino","tag-george-j-annas"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>Military Medical Ethics - Physician First, Last, Always - Protection of Conscience Project Library<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Medical ethics are and must be the same for civilian and military physicians, \u201cexcept in the most extreme contingencies.\u201d\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=11850\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Military Medical Ethics - Physician First, Last, Always - Protection of Conscience Project Library\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Medical ethics are and must be the same for civilian and military physicians, \u201cexcept in the most extreme contingencies.\u201d\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=11850\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Protection of Conscience Project Library\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/consciencepro\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-09-11T17:36:00+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-01-28T19:00:55+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nejmog.jpg\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"338\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Project Administrator\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nejmog.jpg\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@consciencpro\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@consciencpro\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Project Administrator\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/library.consciencelaws.org\\\/?p=11850#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/library.consciencelaws.org\\\/?p=11850\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Project Administrator\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/library.consciencelaws.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/263d102b35e3f7822db6d548b2555098\"},\"headline\":\"Military Medical Ethics &#8211; 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