Question 78 · LEK · Duty to provide medical assistance and withdrawal from treatment
The so called “conscience clause” refers to:
- A. right of the patient to refuse consent for a healthcare service that violates his or her conscience.
- B. right of the physician to refuse performing a healthcare service that violates his or her conscience.
- C. right of the patient to not to be informed about his or her health status and proposed methods of treatment.
- D. right of the physician to limit information about patient’s health and poor prognosis in exceptional situations and when the limiting information is for the good of the patient.
- E. right of the physician to provide a healthcare service to a competent patient despite the patient’s refusal in exceptional situations and when providing the service is for the good of the patient.
Hint
The clause belongs to the doctor, not the patient, and concerns a moral objection to providing a service.
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