Doctors need to do whatever is necessary, including reasonable requests for treatment and medication for patients, even if it violates their own personal beliefs. The only exception, IMO, would be a doctor who didn't want to perfrom an abortion, and I don't think that's what they're talking about here. But I can understand that a doctor who believes an abortion is ending life shouldn't be required to do so, because in their mind that violates the oath they took when they became a doctor. I doubt its an issue anyway, because those doctors would not be working in that field.
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Originally Posted by Thor
A big round of applause for Ontario. About time Doctors went by mandate of healing/respecting patients over their own ridiculous beliefs. Lets just ask ourselves if this offends you, would you respect a doctor with scientology as their religion if they would defy sending your son/daughter to a psychologist.
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What I don't understand in these discussions is why people are so colossally biased and negative about people who have religious beliefs. Its as if finding out someone believes in a higher power is stupid, and simply having that belief is offensive. To refer to it as "ridiculous beliefs" is hugely judgmental and unreasonable. They way one acts with respect to their belief might be ridiculous. I think most of us can agree there has been some questionable and ridiculous BEHAVIOR blamed on beliefs (Tom Cruise springs to mind), and forming an opinion on how one acts is much more reasonable that painting with such a broad brush to say all believers are ridiculous.