1) No surprise.
1) No surprise.
2) Flames. On the side of my face.
(Bolding below is mine.)
These laws protect clinicians who want to refuse treatment, but there is little recourse for clinicians in the opposite scenario — those who want to provide care that a religious employer has forbidden. In many cases, religious exceptions are enshrined in law but a right to standard medical care is not, said Susan Berke Fogel, a director at the National Health Law Program who specializes in reproductive health care. She finds that troubling, because religious exemptions are just that: exceptions to standards that were set by the medical profession to ensure that doctors are giving patients the best possible care. “What [religious hospitals] are getting is permission not to meet those standards,” said Fogel. And yet, hospitals are generally not required to let patients know what services they do not provide.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-catholic-bishops-are-shaping-health-care-in-rural-america/?ex_cid=story-twitter
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-catholic-bishops-are-shaping-health-care-in-rural-america/?ex_cid=story-twitter
2) Flames. On the side of my face.
(Bolding below is mine.)
These laws protect clinicians who want to refuse treatment, but there is little recourse for clinicians in the opposite scenario — those who want to provide care that a religious employer has forbidden. In many cases, religious exceptions are enshrined in law but a right to standard medical care is not, said Susan Berke Fogel, a director at the National Health Law Program who specializes in reproductive health care. She finds that troubling, because religious exemptions are just that: exceptions to standards that were set by the medical profession to ensure that doctors are giving patients the best possible care. “What [religious hospitals] are getting is permission not to meet those standards,” said Fogel. And yet, hospitals are generally not required to let patients know what services they do not provide.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-catholic-bishops-are-shaping-health-care-in-rural-america/?ex_cid=story-twitter
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-catholic-bishops-are-shaping-health-care-in-rural-america/?ex_cid=story-twitter
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