doctor-patient relationship
A Doctor Testifies: Wisconsin SB 306 Will Endanger My Patients
by Fredrik Broekhuizen MD, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin
December 14, 2011 - 9:25am (Print)
Wisconsin SB 306 will greatly impede the continuity of care and put up obstacles between a woman and her primary care physician. It is an unacceptable intrusion into the doctor-patient relationship because, among other things, it requires abortion providers to give patients inaccurate post-procedure instructions.
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California's Prop 4 Jeopardizes the Doctor-Patient Relationship
by Carole Joffe and Dr. Eleanor Drey
November 2, 2008 - 4:49pm (Print)
Dr. Eleanor Drey, an OBGYN from California, says that Proposition 4 would place the duties of police and detectives in the hands of doctors, jeopardizing the crucial doctor-patient relationship.
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On Privacy
by Dr. Paula Hillard, Physicians for Reproductive Choice & Health
October 20, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)
The Supreme Court first established this right to privacy more than a century ago, and most Americans take it for granted every time they visit a doctor. Yet today I find myself having to defend this right on behalf of my patients.
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Eighth Circuit Rules South Dakota Abortion Law Is Likely Constitutional
June 27, 2008 - 12:53pm (Print)
The Eighth Circuit has lifted a preliminary injunction against a South Dakota law that requires doctors to inform patients seeking abortion care that that abortion would "terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being."
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