{"id":14328,"date":"2009-09-19T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=14328"},"modified":"2023-01-28T15:47:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T23:47:45","slug":"unethical-protection-of-conscience-defending-the-powerful-against-the-weak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=14328","title":{"rendered":"Unethical Protection of Conscience: Defending the Powerful against the Weak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bernard M Dickens<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/amajethics-e1674423309493.jpg\" alt=\"American Medical Association Journal of Ethics\" class=\"wp-image-11169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/amajethics-e1674423309493.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/amajethics-e1674423309493-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">American Medical Association Journal of Ethics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Extract<\/strong><br>In protecting and privileging health care professionals who withhold information that their patients depend upon, the provisions reduce health care professionals to the status of self-serving traders in an unequal market who may take advantage of those obliged or unwise enough to trust them and rely on their integrity. The provisions underscore the challenge that conscientious objection poses to health care professionalism [8]. To allow physicians to deny or frustrate a patient\u2019s rights of conscience by enforcing their own through nonreferral, as the new regulations do, is unethical. It is ethically justifiable to be intolerant of religious or other fundamentalist intolerance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Dickens BM. <a href=\"https:\/\/journalofethics.ama-assn.org\/article\/unethical-protection-conscience-defending-powerful-against-weak\/2009-09\">Unethical Protection of Conscience: Defending the Powerful against the Weak<\/a>. Am Med Ass J Ethics. 2009;11(9):725-729. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernard M Dickens ExtractIn protecting and privileging health care professionals who withhold information that their patients depend upon, the provisions reduce health care professionals to the status of self-serving traders in an unequal market who may take advantage of those obliged or unwise enough to trust them and rely on their integrity. 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