Comments on: Patient Rights Or Religious Beliefs? http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/07/patient-rights-or-religious-beliefs/ News, Comment and Conversation Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:00:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: pharma PR hack http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/07/patient-rights-or-religious-beliefs/#comment-368266 pharma PR hack Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:15:30 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/?p=14908#comment-368266 It is extremely unnerving and defies logic that someone's healthcare can be compromised just for the sake of another's ideals which define a certain service as repugnant. When did the patient become the odd person out in their own body? And more importantly where is it going to end. It is extremely unnerving and defies logic that someone’s healthcare can be compromised just for the sake of another’s ideals which define a certain service as repugnant. When did the patient become the odd person out in their own body?

And more importantly where is it going to end.

]]> By: Bruce Grant http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/07/patient-rights-or-religious-beliefs/#comment-368264 Bruce Grant Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:25:04 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/?p=14908#comment-368264 When I first began working in medicine, over 40 years ago, medical students and residents were told in no uncertain terms, "When you are treating patients, leave your moral judgments outside the door. Your job is to serve the patients." The physicians I first worked with treated patients in an STD (then called "venereal disease") clinic, and I am sure had many thoughts which they kept to themselves about their patients and their lifestyles, but they prided themselves on treating every patient with professionalism and dignity. How far we've sunk. When I first began working in medicine, over 40 years ago, medical students and residents were told in no uncertain terms, “When you are treating patients, leave your moral judgments outside the door. Your job is to serve the patients.” The physicians I first worked with treated patients in an STD (then called “venereal disease”) clinic, and I am sure had many thoughts which they kept to themselves about their patients and their lifestyles, but they prided themselves on treating every patient with professionalism and dignity. How far we’ve sunk.

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