Measuring Physician Supply and Limiting the Grounds for Physician Refusal
Measuring Physician Supply and Limiting the Grounds for Physician Refusal
This chapter describes the supply of physicians willing to provide medical services, and addresses which limitations on supply and which grounds for conscientious refusal boards should accept as legitimate. It provides a feasible, inexpensive, and simple way of measuring the supply of willing physicians. The chapter also demonstrates that a registration system has the significant benefit of producing some mechanism to evaluate the propriety of a physician’s refusal in a timely fashion. It shows that a physician’s reasons for refusal must be genuinely held, and that licensing boards can draw on existing models for testing the sincerity of conscientious objection to give teeth to this requirement.
Keywords: medical services, conscientious refusal, physicians, registration system, physician’s refusal, licensing boards
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