{"id":12856,"date":"2010-06-14T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12856"},"modified":"2023-02-05T12:04:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T20:04:31","slug":"professional-conscientious-objection-in-medicine-with-attention-to-referral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12856","title":{"rendered":"Professional Conscientious Objection in Medicine with Attention to Referral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thomas A Cavanaugh<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"154\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/avemarialawrev.jpg\" alt=\"Ave Maria Law Review\" class=\"wp-image-15979\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ave Maria Law Review<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Extract<\/strong><br>What duties accompany conscientious objection? To sum up what follows: The obligations to the patient remain unchanged, but for the denial of the contested request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Specifically, what do these obligations entail? First, following from the very meaning of professing\u2014and to develop a point previously mooted\u2014full disclosure imposes the obligation to promulgate  to the relevant parties one\u2019s conscientious objection. This includes one\u2019s prospective and current patients, colleagues, employers, and relevant institutions, for example hospitals and insurance companies. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second, conscientious objector status obliges the relevant professional to explain her reasons for her objection to those patients who request further information. . . . the patient is due the offer of an explanation. This does not, however, amount to the professional\u2019s having a right to pontificate concerning the relevant matter. Rather, the interested patient ought to receive some answer to the question as to why the professional objects. Certainly, not all patients will be interested to know why. Those who are not interested ought not to be treated as captive audiences; those who do want to know ought to receive a considerate and considered answer. . . <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Third, conscientious objector status bears exclusively on the patient\u2019s contested request; it does not relate to the other care the physician, nurse, or pharmacist provides for the patient. If a relationship exists with the patient . . . the physician, nurse, or pharmacist must provide care to which she does not object. . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fourth, conscientious objector status requires the continued maintenance of confidentiality, particularly with respect to the fact that the professional objects to something the patient requests. . . .the professional must strenuously and scrupulously protect the patient\u2019s privacy specifically concerning the patient\u2019s request and the practitioner\u2019s conscientious objection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, as earlier noted, while conscientious objection does not require referral to a third party who will abide by the patient\u2019s request, it does require transfer of relevant documents, returning a prescription, and, more generally, acts which, while they may result in the act to which one objects, do not require one to aim at that act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Cavanaugh T. <a href=\"https:\/\/repository.usfca.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1023&amp;context=phil\">Professional Conscientious Objection in Medicine with Attention to Referral<\/a>. Ave Maria Law Rev. 2011;9(1):190-206. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas A Cavanaugh ExtractWhat duties accompany conscientious objection? To sum up what follows: The obligations to the patient remain unchanged, but for the denial of the contested request. Specifically, what do these obligations entail? 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