Addressing Skeptics, a Model Statute, and Conclusions
Addressing Skeptics, a Model Statute, and Conclusions
This chapter provides a model protection of conscience and patient access act to serve as a guide to state legislatures interested in combating the current conscience clause dilemma. This model statute leaves many questions unanswered, and it will often be up to licensing boards themselves to identify the best mechanisms for implementing this new policy. The chapter shows that protecting conscience appears to be good for doctors, patients, and society. The best response to the conflict-of-conscience problem is to eliminate such conflicts between doctors and their patients as far as possible, by facilitating matching based on deep moral values.
Keywords: conscience, patient access act, state legislatures, model statute, licensing boards, conflict of conscience
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