(July 2, 2014 at 5:15 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Maybe I'm not being as clear as I could be. If a doctor refuses to perform any medical procedure based on anything except medical reasons (religious views, etc), that's fine. I just don't think they should be able to fly the banner of the AMA, as they would be going against its ethics code (which they subscribe to in entering the organization).
Are you suggesting that the AMA code of ethics prohibits physicians from choosing whom to have as patients and that if a patient demands a procedure that the physician finds morally objectionable, that they cannot decline to treat the patient (in a non-emergency situation)?
If so, it would appear that the AMA disagrees.
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/physicia...thics.page?
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VI. A physician shall, in the provision of appropriate patient care, except in emergencies, be free to choose whom to serve, with whom to associate, and the environment in which to provide medical care.
Other pages at the AMA indicate that physicians are indeed allowed to conscientiously object to and decline to provide treatment they find objectionable. I'm on my phone and its a pain to provide a lot of links and quotes.
