NO: Ethicist Julian Savulescu believes patient safety lies in objective moral standards
CConscientious objection by doctors, as is commonly practised, is discriminatory medicine. Only a fully justified and publicly accepted set of objective values results in ethical medicine as a proper public service with agreed and justified moral and legal standards to which doctors should be held.
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I receive financial support from the Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education; Wellcome Trust Grant no: 086041/Z/08/Z ; and the Oxford Martin School.
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