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

DiscussionDr Foley is certainly entitled to her religious views.  She is also entitled as a physician to avoid situations in which normal standards of care would push her to provide services to patients that conflict with her religious conviction.  But she is not entitled as a physician to proselytize in the guise of medical practice.Furthermore, as a leader in a government health agency, she is not entitled to use that agency ' s power to enforce her personal religious beliefs on patients who do not hold such beliefs.  Given her career, though, there is every reason to worry that she will do so.  Furthermore, it was not clear why she was selected for this powerful government leadership position other than to allow her to proselytize.We recentlydiscussed other examples of people appointed to top positions in the US Department of Health and Human Services who seemed very hostile to the organization ' s mission.  Again, it seemed unlikely that these people were appointed for any reason other than to attack the mission.Furthermore, like Dr Foley, they seemed to have been appointed to impose their personal religious views on the American population.  As we stated then, they all seem to be in a postion to undermine fundamental principles of US government enshrined in the Constitution, including prohibiting the government from establishing a religion or preventing the free expression of any religion, and equal application of the laws and provision of d...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Management Tags: core values deception DHHS Donald Trump mission-hostile management Source Type: blogs