Physician Obligations and Sacrifices
Physician Obligations and Sacrifices
This chapter describes the physician’s baseline duties and sacrifices. It shows that physicians must disclose their specific moral limitations at the initiation of the doctor–patient relationship, and must reiterate them if and when those limitations become relevant as options for the patient in order to satisfy their informed consent and notice obligations. The chapter suggests that physician obligations provide the most substantial compromise possible which takes seriously both patient claims to access and physician claims of conscience. Some physicians’ refusals are satisfactory and even significantly play in moral debate, but others simply go too far.
Keywords: physician obligations, informed consent, patient claims, physician claims, conscience, physicians’ refusals
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