{"id":3511,"date":"2013-08-24T06:03:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T13:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2018-03-06T14:37:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T22:37:05","slug":"australian-regulator-misrepresents-physician-obligations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3511","title":{"rendered":"Australian regulator misrepresents physician obligations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Claim that\u00a0practitioner codes require referral disproved by Australian Medical Association<\/h2>\n<p class=\"author\">Sean Murphy<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/authors.aspx#Sean_Murphy\">*<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a report in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com.au\/story\/1725830\/doyle-fronts-abortion-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Examiner<\/em><\/a>, a representative of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Association\u00a0told a Tasmanian legislative committee that physicians who object to a procedure for reasons of conscience are obliged by professional codes of ethics\u00a0to refer\u00a0patients\u00a0to another physician.\u00a0 Lisa McIntosh was addressing the Committee concerning a proposed Reproductive Health Bill.<\/p>\n<p>Her\u00a0assertion is contradicted by a submission by the Australian Medical Association Tasmania, which protested the section of the bill that would force objecting physicians to facilitate morally contested procedures by referral.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/law\/commentary\/legal053.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">AMA Tasmania submission <\/a>included quotes from the AMA <em>Code of Ethics<\/em> and\u00a0a document from the Medical Board of Australia Good Medical Practice to demonstrate that the draft legislation information paper falsely claimed that there was a duty to refer.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee also heard from Catholic Archbishop Adrian Doyle, whose concerns about the proposed bill included the mandatory referral provision.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claim that\u00a0practitioner codes require referral disproved by Australian Medical Association Sean Murphy* According to a report in The Examiner, a representative of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Association\u00a0told a Tasmanian legislative committee that physicians who object to a procedure for reasons of conscience are obliged by professional codes of ethics\u00a0to refer\u00a0patients\u00a0to another physician.\u00a0 Lisa McIntosh &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3511\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Australian regulator misrepresents physician obligations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,30,643,4,36,287],"tags":[1075,521,869,566,293,317,3393],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-australia","category-christianity-catholicism","category-commentary","category-essays","category-protection-of-conscience-project","tag-australian-health-practitioners-regulation-agency","tag-australian-medical-association","tag-medical-board-of-australia","tag-physicians","tag-referral","tag-sean-murphy","tag-tasmania-australia"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Australian regulator misrepresents physician obligations - 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