{"id":9825,"date":"2019-11-05T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T01:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9825"},"modified":"2019-12-28T17:51:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T01:51:46","slug":"whose-rights-come-first-doctors-or-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9825","title":{"rendered":"Whose Rights Come First: Doctors&#8217; or Patients&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Medscape<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author\">Arthur L. Caplan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n        Hi. I&#8217;m Art Caplan. I&#8217;m at the Division of Medical Ethics at the NYU School of Medicine. Conscientious objection\u2014everybody seems to be talking about it these days. What are the rights of physicians, pharmacists, nurses, or other healthcare workers to say that something may be legal but they refuse to do it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>         This issue has come up particularly as more and more health systems are merging. You see Catholic hospitals merging with secular hospitals. Catholic hospitals have a huge presence in the American world of hospitals and nursing homes, probably accounting for 40% of all facilities. When mergers take place, whose values predominate?  .  . [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/920107#vp_2\">Full  text<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Project response: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9655\">Freedom of conscience in healthcare: &#8220;an interesting moral swamp?&#8221;<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medscape Arthur L. Caplan Hi. I&#8217;m Art Caplan. I&#8217;m at the Division of Medical Ethics at the NYU School of Medicine. Conscientious objection\u2014everybody seems to be talking about it these days. What are the rights of physicians, pharmacists, nurses, or other healthcare workers to say that something may be legal but they refuse to do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9825\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Whose Rights Come First: Doctors&#8217; or Patients&#8217;?&#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":[46,77,643,508,217,295,28],"tags":[3794,3702,3023,414,3703],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-assisted-suicide","category-christianity-catholicism","category-ethical-commentary","category-lawsuits","category-religious-freedom","category-usa","tag-arthur-caplan","tag-barbara-morris","tag-centura-health","tag-colorado","tag-neil-mahoney"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Whose Rights Come First: Doctors&#039; or Patients&#039;? - 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=9825\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Whose Rights Come First: Doctors&#039; or Patients&#039;? - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Medscape Arthur L. 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