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talkpoliticshttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/19/946995/-Obama-administration-rescinds-Bushs-conscience-rule-for-medical-providers
The Obama administration on Friday rescinded most of a 2008 rule that granted sweeping protections to health care providers who opposed abortion, sterilization and other medical procedures on religious or moral grounds.
The Obama administration on Friday rescinded most of a 2008 rule that granted sweeping protections to health care providers who opposed abortion, sterilization and other medical procedures on religious or moral grounds.
Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, said the rule, issued in the last days of the Bush administration, could “negatively impact patient access to contraception and certain other medical services.”
It's good to see that common sense CAN sometimes prevail in DC. There isn't a place for conscientious objectors in medicine.The patient is the one who makes the decisions which is as it should be. I know I wouldn't want to have to go hunting for an atheist doctor if a medical choice I wanted to make conflicted with that of my regular doctor.
Plus, it's a kick in the balls to the religious right which is always nice.
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Date: 23/2/11 04:15 (UTC)A 2007 article in the Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association estimates the cost of a lower extremity amputation at $30,000 to $60,000, with an additional $43,000 to $60,000 for subsequent care for 3 years.
Specifically, this article:
Organized Programs to Prevent Lower-Extremity Amputations
by Lee C. Rogers, DPM & Nicholas J. Bevilacqua, DPM
Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association
Volume 100 Number 2 101-104 2010 (http://www.japmaonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/100/2/101)
If that information is incorrect, I would recommend telling the those doctors and the Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association to alter their peer review.
Although I don't know what hero you're referring to. Certainly not mine.
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Date: 23/2/11 01:56 (UTC)Er.....
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