{"id":5778,"date":"2015-03-18T01:12:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T01:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5778"},"modified":"2015-04-16T21:03:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T21:03:14","slug":"the-doctors-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5778","title":{"rendered":"The doctors&#8217; dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author\"><em>National Post<\/em> (Editorial)<\/p>\n<p>The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario recently voted to require doctors who refuse to provide certain services for reasons of conscience to provide referrals to doctors who will.<\/p>\n<p>The new policy, enacted over the objections of the Ontario Medical Association, is a marked departure from the old. It paints medicine as a battlefield, with equal and opposite freedoms repeatedly colliding. Thus the college graciously agrees to limit physicians&#8217; freedom of conscience in order to safeguard patients&#8217; right of access.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that &#8220;right of access&#8221; is a college creation, while freedom of conscience is enshrined in the <em>Charter of Rights<\/em>. Doctors make informed decisions about treatment constantly. If they did not refuse to prescribe some treatments and suggest others, they would not be professionals. A patient storming into an office demanding amputation to treat a broken arm does not have &#8220;right of access.&#8221; . . . 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It paints medicine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5778\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The doctors&#8217; dilemma&#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":[46,77,32,4,650,162,9,19],"tags":[385,1202,1529,293],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-5778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-commentary","category-contraception","category-euthanasia","category-news","category-repression-of-conscience","tag-college-of-physicians-and-surgeons-of-ontario","tag-ontario-medical-association","tag-professional-obligations-and-human-rights","tag-referral"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>The doctors&#039; dilemma - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5778\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The doctors&#039; dilemma - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"National Post (Editorial) The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario recently voted to require doctors who refuse to provide certain services for reasons of conscience to provide referrals to doctors who will. 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