Restricting Doctor–Patient Conversations in Federally Funded Clinics
- 1 August 1991
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 325 (5), 362-364
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199108013250519
Abstract
We have come to accept, as a matter of both law and medical ethics, that open and honest discussion is crucial to the doctor–patient relationship. We accordingly deplore the practice in Plato's Greece whereby, for slaves, "verbal communication between healer and patient was reduced to a minimum."1 But restricting conversation between doctor and patient has now become a matter of government policy, again distinguishing patients according to economic class.In 1988 the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced radically revised regulations governing the 4000 family-planning clinics that had been receiving federal funding under Title X of the Public . . .Keywords
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