John K Davis | Conscientious Refusal and a Doctor's Right to to Quit

question 9

Multiple Choice

John K. Davis | Conscientious Refusal and a Doctor's Right to Quit
Davis argues that doctors have a right to conscientious refusal to treat a patient as long as they do not make the patient worse off than he or she would have been had they not gone to the doctor in the first place. This refusal is justified by the restitution approach, which further settles a number of moral controversies that can arise from an "ethics of quitting."
-If the odds are high that a patient would have found another doctor willing to perform a procedure, then it is relevant to consider

• A) moral counseling.
• B) inconsistent referral.
• C) majority limitation.
• D) availability of other doctors.

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