{"id":9520,"date":"2019-09-12T14:07:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T21:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9520"},"modified":"2023-01-22T14:47:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T22:47:58","slug":"professionalism-eliminates-religion-as-a-proper-tool-for-doctors-rendering-advice-to-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9520","title":{"rendered":"Professionalism eliminates religion as a proper tool for doctors rendering advice to patients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Udo Schuklenk<\/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>Abstract<\/strong>:Religious considerations and language do not typically belong in the professional advice rendered by a doctor to a patient. Among the rationales mounted by Greenblum and Hubbard in support of that conclusion is that religious considerations and language are incompatible with the role of doctors as public officials.1 Much as I agree with their conclusion, I take issue with this particular aspect of their analysis. It seems based on a mischaracterisation of what societal role doctors fulfil, qua doctors. What obliges doctors to communicate by means of content that is expressed in public reason-based language is not that they are public officials. Doctors as doctors are not necessarily public officials. Rather, doctors have such obligations, because they are professionals. Unlike public officials doctors are part of a profession that is to a significant extent self-governing. This holds true for all professions. The \u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding to religious patients: why physicians have no business doing theology. Jake Greenblum Ryan K Hubbard Journal of Medical Ethics 2019; &#8211; Published Online First: 20 Jun 2019. doi: 10.1136\/medethics-2019-105452 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Schuklenk U. <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1136\/medethics-2019-105703\">Professionalism eliminates religion as a proper tool for doctors rendering advice to patients<\/a>. J Medical Ethics. 2019 Sep 12. pii: medethics-2019-105703. doi: 10.1136\/medethics-2019-105703. [Epub ahead of print]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Udo Schuklenk Abstract:Religious considerations and language do not typically belong in the professional advice rendered by a doctor to a patient. 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