{"id":9315,"date":"2019-08-20T20:02:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T03:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9315"},"modified":"2019-09-03T15:01:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T22:01:30","slug":"conscientious-objection-professional-discretionary-space-and-good-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9315","title":{"rendered":"Conscientious Objection, Professional Discretionary Space, and Good Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Practical Ethics<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author\">Doug McConnell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>         Some argue that good medicine depends on physicians having a wide discretionary space in which they can act on their consciences (Sulmasy, 2017). Interestingly, those who are against conscientious objection in medicine make the exact opposite claim \u2013 giving physicians the freedom to act on their consciences will undermine good medicine. So who is right here? . . . [<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk\/2019\/08\/conscientious-objection-professional-discretionary-space-and-good-medicine\/\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practical Ethics Doug McConnell Some argue that good medicine depends on physicians having a wide discretionary space in which they can act on their consciences (Sulmasy, 2017). Interestingly, those who are against conscientious objection in medicine make the exact opposite claim \u2013 giving physicians the freedom to act on their consciences will undermine good medicine. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9315\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Conscientious Objection, Professional Discretionary Space, and Good Medicine&#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":[508],"tags":[129,3690],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethical-commentary","tag-daniel-p-sulmasy","tag-doug-mcconnell"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Conscientious Objection, Professional Discretionary Space, and Good Medicine - 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=9315\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Conscientious Objection, Professional Discretionary Space, and Good Medicine - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Practical Ethics Doug McConnell Some argue that good medicine depends on physicians having a wide discretionary space in which they can act on their consciences (Sulmasy, 2017). 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