A Physician Who Had Run Clinics Which Proselytized Patients is Now a Government Health Care Leader Positioned to Enforce Her Religious Beliefs on Patients and Citizens Who Do Not Hold Such Beliefs

Introduction: Physicians' Values and Organizational Missions

Physicians professional values require them to put the interests of their individual patients ahead of all else, including the physicians' self interest. The AMA Principles of Medical Ethics, for example, includes


VIII. A physician shall, while caring for a patient, regard responsibility to the patient as paramount.

Similarly, in