title: Conscience, referral, and physician assisted suicide.
abstract: Practices such as physician assisted suicide, even if legal, engender a range of moral conflicts to which many are oblivious. A recent proposal for physician assisted suicide provides an example by calling upon physicians opposed to suicide to refer patients to other, more sympathetic, physicians. However, the proposal does not address the moral concerns of those physicians for whom such referral would be morally objectionable.
authors.affiliation: Center for Ethics, Medicine, and Public Issues, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030.
authors.forename: K W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Wildes
mesh_terms: D028661:Complicity; D003242:Conscience; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005065:Euthanasia; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D010819:Physician's Role; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000592:standards; D012945:Social Values; D017236:Suicide, Assisted / Q000523:psychology*