Submission to the Alberta College of Pharmacists
Re: Draft Code of Ethics
27 February, 2009TABLE OF CONTENTS
II. The
context
III. Part V (Draft Code)
- “Health care”
- “Patient’s right.”
- “Emergency; risk.”
- “Unable to provide service.”
- “Assist the patient; refer the patient.”
IV. Part VIII (Draft Code)
V. Purpose and effect of the Draft Code
VI. The
issues
VII. Responding to the issues
VIII. The new ‘rights’ language
IX. Belief: religious and otherwise
X. Establishment consensus and the ethics of the profession
XII. Social contract and socialized medicine
XIV. “Negligence close to abandonment”
XVIII. The problem of complicity
- Complicity in torture
- Complicity in capital punishment, euthanasia and assisted suicide
- Complicity and referral
- CMPA: referrals and complicity
- Complicity and dirty hands
XIX. The needs of the patient: anthropology counts
- The integrity of the human person
- The dignity and inviolability of the human person
- Human dignity and freedom of conscience
XXI. Summing up:
mandatory
referral or
assistance
XXII. The need
to explicitly
address freedom
of conscience
XXIII.
In search of
consensus
XXV. Summing
up:
accommodating
pharmacists
and patients
XXVI.
Recapitulation
Appendix “A”
The Exercise
of Freedom
of
Conscience
in Pharmacy
Professional
and
Regulatory
Responses
Table -
February,
2009
Appendix “B”
The Exercise
of Freedom
of
Conscience
in Pharmacy
Professional
and
Regulatory
Responses
Summary -
February,
2009
Appendix “C”
The Exercise
of Freedom
of
Conscience
in Pharmacy
Professional
and
Regulatory
Responses
Details -
February,
2009
Appendix “D”
Conscientious
Objection as
a Crime
Against
Humanity
Notes