Protect “Good Medical Practice” in Australia: safeguard the Medical Board Code of Conduct.
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Sue Boersma
8 years ago
doctors should be given the liberty to discuss as per conscience the correct procedure and not be enforced to do and perform what is regarded as culturally correct. The decision of the patient's family may not be in the truthful decision to undertake and will obstruct the medical professional's freedom to exercise sound clinical judgement
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JOHN BONKER
8 years ago
Anything that threatens the integrity of conscience of doctors must be rejected. Keep to traditional standards.
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David John Shearer
8 years ago
Please retain the integrity of our Code of Conduct and the integrity of the practise of 'Medicine' in Australia. Do not change it.
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Victor Booth
8 years ago
Political (Cultural) Correctness should not override or legislate against "Good Medical Practice"
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Gloria SOO
8 years ago
Patients have rights too
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John Wesley Campbell
8 years ago
Anything that threatens the integrity of conscience of doctors must be rejected. Keep to traditional standards.
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Daniel Claughton
8 years ago
FRACGP MBBS
Fundamental to general practice is freedom of speech within the doctor-patient relationship and I disagree with any proposed change to limit this.
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Peter Rowlands
8 years ago
No doctor - or any other person, should be forced to perform a job against their conscience.
This is a basic universal human right.
In complex cases where the patient is not fully able to make an informed decision, we must protect patients from both relatives and doctors, in a process that is fair and transparent, sensitive to the values of both the relatives and the wider Australian community. Don't give absolute power to a single relative or doctor over someone's life and well being.
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Dr Bethany Nelson
8 years ago
Freedom of conscience is synonymous with freedom of choice and freedom of speech in Australia and can not be taken away.
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Veena Roberts
8 years ago
The proposed revisions are worrying as they remove the rights of doctors to practice sound clinical decision-making and limits the freedom of conscience of doctors.
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Graham Toohill
8 years ago
Vitally important for good medical practice
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Anonymous
8 years ago
Please allow freedom of conscience to continue in medical practice
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Anonymous
8 years ago
The proposed changes should not be accepted as they are inconsistent with good medical practice.
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Douglas Randell
8 years ago
We have built a medical system that enables human flourishing through trust, rational investigation and evidence. To sacrifice these wonderful gains to 'cultural safety' is unwise.
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MANDY VARLEY
8 years ago
The Hippocratic Oath has always been and should ALWAYS be the standard that all medical professionals must adhere to. No lower standard is acceptable!
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Marianne
8 years ago
Please allow freedom of conscience to continue.
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Barry Earp
8 years ago
The proposed changes would lead to bad medicine - decisions made over-ruling best medical advice. Don't change the current Code
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John G Wheeler
8 years ago
Removal of conscience in society leads to dictatorship
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Janine Vander Ven
8 years ago
The people called to save lives who spend many years and many thousands of dollars training to do so, should not be suddenly forced under anything different, and especially not forced to participate in abortion and euthanasia!
doctors should be given the liberty to discuss as per conscience the correct procedure and not be enforced to do and perform what is regarded as culturally correct. The decision of the patient's family may not be in the truthful decision to undertake and will obstruct the medical professional's freedom to exercise sound clinical judgement
Anything that threatens the integrity of conscience of doctors must be rejected. Keep to traditional standards.
Please retain the integrity of our Code of Conduct and the integrity of the practise of 'Medicine' in Australia. Do not change it.
Political (Cultural) Correctness should not override or legislate against "Good Medical Practice"
Patients have rights too
Anything that threatens the integrity of conscience of doctors must be rejected. Keep to traditional standards.
FRACGP MBBS Fundamental to general practice is freedom of speech within the doctor-patient relationship and I disagree with any proposed change to limit this.
No doctor - or any other person, should be forced to perform a job against their conscience. This is a basic universal human right. In complex cases where the patient is not fully able to make an informed decision, we must protect patients from both relatives and doctors, in a process that is fair and transparent, sensitive to the values of both the relatives and the wider Australian community. Don't give absolute power to a single relative or doctor over someone's life and well being.
Freedom of conscience is synonymous with freedom of choice and freedom of speech in Australia and can not be taken away.
The proposed revisions are worrying as they remove the rights of doctors to practice sound clinical decision-making and limits the freedom of conscience of doctors.
Vitally important for good medical practice
Please allow freedom of conscience to continue in medical practice
The proposed changes should not be accepted as they are inconsistent with good medical practice.
We have built a medical system that enables human flourishing through trust, rational investigation and evidence. To sacrifice these wonderful gains to 'cultural safety' is unwise.
The Hippocratic Oath has always been and should ALWAYS be the standard that all medical professionals must adhere to. No lower standard is acceptable!
Please allow freedom of conscience to continue.
The proposed changes would lead to bad medicine - decisions made over-ruling best medical advice. Don't change the current Code
Removal of conscience in society leads to dictatorship
The people called to save lives who spend many years and many thousands of dollars training to do so, should not be suddenly forced under anything different, and especially not forced to participate in abortion and euthanasia!
It is first and foremost that doctors do no harm.