Refusing To Provide Care Story aired: Thursday, June 16, 2005
Medical professionals around the country are wrestling with a dilemma: how do you remain loyal to your religion when it comes into conflict with providing certain forms of medical care? It's a dilemma that some doctors, nurses and pharmacists are solving by refusing to provide care they don't agree with. Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, has written a piece on this dilemma in this week's New England Journal of Medicine.
Guests:
Alta Charo, professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin. Charo spoke with producer Rachel Gotbaum.
