Year: 2018
Resolution Number: 49
Action Taken: Disapproved
Status:
Author(s): Cheryl Farmer, MD, Michael Simon, MD, Lauren Smith, MD, and
Sponsor: Cheryl Farmer, MD
On behalf of: Individual Delegate
Committee: A (Medical Care Delivery)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That MSMS believes that physicians who invoke a conscientious objection to participate in the provision of health care services have a moral obligation to make a reasonable, good faith effort to refer those patients to other providers who they believe have a reasonable likelihood of providing that care, when the needed services fall within the standard of care; and be it further RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA) ask our AMA to amend the AMA Code of Ethics to include a statement that physicians who invoke a conscientious objection to participate in the provision of health care services have a moral obligation to make a reasonable, good faith effort to refer those patients to other providers who they believe have a reasonable likelihood of providing that care, when the needed services fall within the standard of care.
RESOLVED: That MSMS believes that physicians who invoke a conscientious objection to participate in the provision of health care services have a moral obligation to make a reasonable, good faith effort to refer those patients to other providers who they believe have a reasonable likelihood of providing that care, when the needed services fall within the standard of care; and be it further RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA) ask our AMA to amend the AMA Code of Ethics to include a statement that physicians who invoke a conscientious objection to participate in the provision of health care services have a moral obligation to make a reasonable, good faith effort to refer those patients to other providers who they believe have a reasonable likelihood of providing that care, when the needed services fall within the standard of care.
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Referral Obligation for Physicians Exercising Conscientious Objection