Ethics/Conscience
Code of Ethics for Healthcare Providers
Today’s Health Care and the Hypocritical Oath
By Bobby Schindler, President and Founder, Terry Schiavo Life & Hope Network
Covid-19 exposed how an individual’s medical rights to determine treatment has transferred into the hands of outsiders. Indeed, the pandemic brought with it an alarming number of examples of medical cruelty that are being perpetrated on patients and their families. Read more…
Whatever Happened To The Hippocratic Oath?
By Anne O’Meara, Executive Director – May 2020
The Hippocratic Oath was once viewed as the gold standard in medicine. Dating back to approximately 400 BC, the oath is perhaps the oldest binding document still existing and available in both its original form and modernized versions. Unfortunately, the classic oath has largely gone out of fashion in the last several decades. Read more…
Protecting The Conscience Rights
Of Healthcare Providers
By Julie Grimstad, President of HALO – May 2020
My original plan was to write about the many ways in which medical professionals who reverence human life are, today, being discriminated against for refusing to compromise their deeply held moral or religious beliefs. But who needs another depressing message right now? So, I searched for some good news and found it.. Read more…
A Critical Point In History For Conscience Rights
Medical professionals who refuse to participate in immoral acts often must defend their right to practice medicine in their chosen field and sometimes are unjustly pressured to resign, are fired, or denied employment. Furthermore, hospitals and other healthcare facilities must be free to respect the sanctity of every human life, providing a safe haven for people who want to die a natural death without fear of being pressured to request assisted suicide or euthanasia. Read more…