ACOG has made it a priority to combat legislative interference with the patient-physician relationship. ACOG’s Executive Board recently approved a Statement of Policy formalizing this effort.
Most
of us recognize that government serves a valuable role in protecting public
health and safety and in the provision of essential health services. However,
we at KerismaMD and others, like ACOG, oppose any government interference that
threatens communication between patients and their physicians or other health
care providers. ACOG also objects to laws that interfere with the patient’s
right to be counseled according to the best currently available evidence-based
guidelines and the physician’s professional medical judgment.
ACOG
President Jeanne A. Conry, MD, PhD acknowledged that “given the relentless
legislative assault on the patient-physician relationship that we’ve seen in
the past few years—and unfortunately continue to see—we were compelled to issue
a formal Statement of Policy.”
Click here to
read the full news release accompanying the Statement.
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