Monitoring Medical Morality

A few doctors in this province have been trying to impose their own religious beliefs on their patients, and approve or deny them treatment or medication based on those differences. 

Now the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons agrees that this should not be allowed. The group has decided that doctors who bring their religious and moral beliefs into their medical practice may face repercussions.

Imagine this. You sit in a restaurant and order a steak, but the waiter refuses to bring it to you because he’s a vegetarian. Steak is on the menu. It’s being offered by the restaurant, but you can’t have it because your server disagrees with eating meat. Sure, you can ask for another waiter, but the first guy shouldn’t even be on the job. And when it comes to doctors, just getting another isn’t always an option. Five-million Canadians (including myself, for example) do not have and have been unable to get a family doctor. So if your guy decides not to “allow” you a certain type of care, you may not have another option. 
  
The college has approved a policy that will limit the right of doctors to refuse to provide medical treatment if it infringes on their beliefs. 

Politics has no place in the bedroom and religion has no place in the examining office.  Majority rules. It’s part of the job and doctors who disagree will simply have to learn to deal with it or face disciplinary action by their own governing body.

This blog also appears at 680news.com.