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Doctors' Personal Beliefs Should Never Prejudice Patient Care, Says BMA
Chairman of the BMA’s Medical Ethics Committee, Dr Tony Calland, said today:
“Doctors are not there to judge patients but to treat them. It would not be appropriate or ethical for a doctor to refuse to help a patient because their own personal beliefs were in conflict with how an individual patient led their life.
“This guidance is confusing and inconsistent and will not benefit doctors or patients. On the one hand doctors are being advised not to discriminate on the basis of their personal beliefs regarding a patient’s gender, sexual orientation or race, but on the other hand the guidance seems to give doctors a mandate to opt out of ANY procedure to which they have an ethical objection. The BMA is extremely concerned about how far these objections could extend. For example, could a doctor refuse to refer a lesbian couple for fertility treatment, refuse to carry out a sexual health test on a homosexual or object to treat a Jehovah’s Witness who has refused a blood transfusion?”
The BMA’s Medical Ethics Committee (MEC) believes that patients should be notified in advance if doctors conscientiously object to the limited number of procedures from which they can opt out. For example the MEC suggests that good practice would be for GPs to state if they object to abortion in their practice leaflets.
Source: BMA
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