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The Frightening Deterioration of Professional Medical Ethics
When I went to nursing school in 1967, abortion was illegal in the U.S. and so-called “back alley” abortions were universally condemned.
The American Medical Association was established in 1847 and the “AMA was keen to be taken seriously as a gatekeeper of the medical profession, and abortion services made midwives and other irregular practitioners—so-called quacks—an easy target.”
The American Medical Association was established in 1847 and the “AMA was keen to be taken seriously as a gatekeeper of the medical profession, and abortion services made midwives and other irregular practitioners—so-called quacks—an easy target.”
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Tagged American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Medical Association, American Nurses Association, Dallas R. Lawry, Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health, Jay Inslee, Josh Green, Journal of the Advanced Practitioner in Oncology titled, Kavita Arora, Medical Code of Ethics, Medpage, Roe v. Wade, San Diego, Thomas Eppes Jr, University of California
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Is the American Nurses Association Ready to Drop Opposition to Assisted Suicide?
In 2013, the American Nurses Association (ANA) stated this : “The American Nurses Association (ANA) prohibits nurses’ participation in assisted suicide and euthanasiabecause these acts are in direct violation of Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (ANA, 2001).”
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Tagged American Nurses Association, Code of Ethics, Compassion and Choices, End of Life, Nutrition and Hydration, Social Justice
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