Comments on: HHS Regulation Proposed to Protect Health Care Providers from Discrimination http://www.bioethicsinternational.org/blog/2008/08/23/hhs-regulation-proposed-to-protect-health-care-providers-from-discrimination/ Because just enough isn't good enough Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:23:55 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: mary http://www.bioethicsinternational.org/blog/2008/08/23/hhs-regulation-proposed-to-protect-health-care-providers-from-discrimination/comment-page-1/#comment-19970 mary Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:25:12 +0000 http://www.bioethicsinternational.org/?p=598#comment-19970 1) Require patient/consumer be given both verbal and written notice of the services they will be denied. 2) Require that a LARGE sign be posted specifying the services that providers have refused to give. 1) Require patient/consumer be given both verbal and written notice of the services they will be denied.

2) Require that a LARGE sign be posted specifying the services that providers have refused to give.

]]> By: Marion http://www.bioethicsinternational.org/blog/2008/08/23/hhs-regulation-proposed-to-protect-health-care-providers-from-discrimination/comment-page-1/#comment-17156 Marion Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:29:08 +0000 http://www.bioethicsinternational.org/?p=598#comment-17156 As is stated in the second to last paragraph in your article this regulation proposes protection for a healthcare provider for refusing to EVEN give a patient a REFERRAL for a service for which he/she finds “morally objectionable”. What’s next: Refusing to fully inform a patient of all of her birth control or family planning options because the Health Care Provider finds some of the acts morally objectionable? What about the trust that a patient places in her health care provider that he/she will fully inform her of all of her options? What about the rights of the patient? If a health care provider doesn’t want to provide full service to clients and put the patient first than he/she should find a different occupation or, at a minimum, be required to prominently display a list of all of the acts that the provider will not provide because he/she finds them to be “morally objectionable”. As is stated in the second to last paragraph in your article this regulation proposes protection for a healthcare provider for refusing to EVEN give a patient a REFERRAL for a service for which he/she finds “morally objectionable”. What’s next: Refusing to fully inform a patient of all of her birth control or family planning options because the Health Care Provider finds some of the acts morally objectionable?
What about the trust that a patient places in her health care provider that he/she will fully inform her of all of her options? What about the rights of the patient?
If a health care provider doesn’t want to provide full service to clients and put the patient first than he/she should find a different occupation or, at a minimum, be required to prominently display a list of all of the acts that the provider will not provide because he/she finds them to be “morally objectionable”.

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