{"id":2726,"date":"2013-05-02T23:04:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T23:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2726"},"modified":"2013-05-02T23:43:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T23:43:58","slug":"discrimination-at-the-doctors-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2726","title":{"rendered":"Discrimination at the doctor’s office"},"content":{"rendered":"

New England Journal of Medicine<\/h2>\n

Perspective<\/strong><\/p>\n

Holly Fernandez Lynch<\/p>\n

Doctors dedicate themselves to helping others. But how selective can they be in deciding whom to help? Recent years have seen some highly publicized examples of doctors who reject patients not because of time constraints or limited expertise but on far more questionable grounds, including the patient’s sexual orientation, parents’ unwillingness to vaccinate (in surveys, as many as 30% of pediatricians say they have asked families to leave their practice for this reason), and most recently, the patient’s weight.\u00a0[Read more <\/a>. . .]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New England Journal of Medicine Perspective Holly Fernandez Lynch Doctors dedicate themselves to helping others. But how selective can they be in deciding whom to help? 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