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The Protection of Conscience
by Mark Kristjanson
If you are reading this article, the chances are good that you are already familiar with the story of a medical student whose ordeal during the 2003-4 academic year set in motion the events which led to the formation of the Freedom of Conscience Committee of CMDS Canada. Picture yourself on the wards. You are a clinical clerk, within weeks of starting your last year of medical school which so far has been a largely positive experience. Your preceptors rate your performance highly. You are known for your conscientious approach to patient care, and as for the academic side of things well, lets just say you are unusually bright, even for a medical student. Working in the gyne out-patient department one day, you see a patient who has come in requesting a script for an oral contraceptive. Having learned that the patient is single, you find yourself unable in good conscience to write out the script personally, and so you...Click here to read more
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