{"id":13138,"date":"2007-05-02T23:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T06:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13138"},"modified":"2023-01-23T14:26:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T22:26:03","slug":"correspondence-religion-conscience-and-controversial-clinical-practices-authors-respond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13138","title":{"rendered":"(Correspondence) Religion, Conscience and Controversial Clinical Practices (Authors respond)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Farr A Curlin,  Ryan E Lawrence,  John D Lantos<\/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>Those who act conscientiously do not \u201cdisavow responsibility\u201d and \u201csubstitute their personal values for the fundamental rights of their patients.\u201d Rather, they are engaging in the struggle to know and do the right thing and to understand and fulfill their moral obligations in a particular situation. This task cannot be externalized or delegated. Indeed, acting conscientiously is the heart of the ethical life, and to the extent that physicians give it up, they are no longer acting as moral agents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Curlin FA, Lawrence RE, Lantos JD. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMc070628\">(Correspondence) Religion, Conscience and Controversial Clinical Practices (Authors respond)<\/a>. N. Engl. J. Med.. 2007;356(18):1891-1892. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farr A Curlin, Ryan E Lawrence, John D Lantos ExtractThose who act conscientiously do not \u201cdisavow responsibility\u201d and \u201csubstitute their personal values for the fundamental rights of their patients.\u201d Rather, they are engaging in the struggle to know and do the right thing and to understand and fulfill their moral obligations in a particular situation. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13138\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Correspondence) Religion, Conscience and Controversial Clinical Practices (Authors respond)&#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":[554,882],"tags":[1315,1303,1432],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-13138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-journals-correspondence","tag-farr-a-curlin","tag-john-d-lantos","tag-ryan-e-lawrence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>(Correspondence) Religion, Conscience and Controversial Clinical Practices (Authors respond) - Protection of Conscience Project Library<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"acting conscientiously is the heart of the ethical life. 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