title: Commentary: value neutrality, moral integrity, and the physician.
abstract: The commentator agrees, in part, with Beckwith and Peppin that value neutrality is an illusion, both ethically and legally. He asserts, however, that a physician's moral autonomy does not sanction proselytizing to promote the physician's own values.
authors.affiliation: Center for Clinical Ethics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., USA.
authors.forename: E D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Pellegrino
mesh_terms: D000029:Abortion, Legal; D026686:Beneficence; D030881:Disclosure; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005610:Freedom; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D010344:Patient Advocacy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010684:Philosophy; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D035621:Secularism; D012945:Social Values; D026712:Value of Life