{"id":4694,"date":"2013-11-15T00:08:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T08:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4694"},"modified":"2023-01-22T16:36:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T00:36:17","slug":"conscientious-objection-by-muslim-students-startling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4694","title":{"rendered":"Conscientious objection by Muslim students startling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Michelle McLean<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"172\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/jmedicalethics.jpg\" alt=\"Journal of Medical Ethics\" class=\"wp-image-11057\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Journal of Medical Ethics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Extract<\/strong><br>I read Robert Card&#8217;s recent paper entitled \u2018<em>Is there no alternative? Conscientious objection by medical students<\/em>\u2019 with great interest.1 That Muslim students in America are able to conscientiously object (and this was entertained) to the cross-gender consultation&nbsp;is somewhat startling. I have just left the Middle East, where I worked as a medical educator for five-and-a-half\u2005years (2006\u20132011), and, to the best of my knowledge, even in the conservative, gender-segregated traditional Muslim culture of the United Arab Emirates, not once did a male or female student refuse to examine a patient of the opposite sex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Mclean M. <a href=\"http:\/\/jme.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2013\/01\/29\/medethics-2013-101332.full\">Conscientious objection by Muslim students startling<\/a>. J Med Ethics November 2013 Vol. 39 No. 11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle McLean ExtractI read Robert Card&#8217;s recent paper entitled \u2018Is there no alternative? Conscientious objection by medical students\u2019 with great interest.1 That Muslim students in America are able to conscientiously object (and this was entertained) to the cross-gender consultation&nbsp;is somewhat startling. 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