{"id":3061,"date":"2023-11-17T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3061"},"modified":"2023-11-18T12:58:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T17:58:19","slug":"physicians-refusal-to-wear-masks-to-protect-vulnerable-patients-an-ethical-dilemma-for-the-medical-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/physicians-refusal-to-wear-masks-to-protect-vulnerable-patients-an-ethical-dilemma-for-the-medical-profession\/","title":{"rendered":"Physicians\u2019 Refusal to Wear Masks to Protect Vulnerable Patients\u2014An Ethical Dilemma for the Medical Profession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 11, 2023, the US federal government put an end to the COVID-19\u2013related public health emergency. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) no longer recommends routine universal masking in most health care settings. Many clinicians and staff at hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes around the country have stopped regularly wearing masks. A conflict might arise when patients who are immunocompromised or have other risk factors that increase their susceptibility to COVID-19 complications seek health care and encounter an unmasked clinician. Individuals who have such conditions are considered disabled under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Those disabled patients nowadays must embark on a \u201cpersonal crusade for public health\u201d to have their needs met.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 11, 2023, the US federal government put an end to the COVID-19\u2013related public health emergency. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) no longer recommends routine universal masking in most health care settings. Many clinicians and staff at hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes around the country have stopped regularly wearing masks. A conflict might arise when patients who are immunocompromised or have other risk factors that increase their susceptibility to COVID-19 complications seek health care and encounter an unmasked clinician. Individuals who have such conditions are considered disabled under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Those disabled patients nowadays must embark on a \u201cpersonal crusade for public health\u201d to have their needs met.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/physicians-refusal-to-wear-masks-to-protect-vulnerable-patients-an-ethical-dilemma-for-the-medical-profession\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Physicians\u2019 Refusal to Wear Masks to Protect Vulnerable Patients\u2014An Ethical Dilemma for the Medical Profession<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,558,259,19,175,14,51,143],"class_list":["post-3061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-ethics","tag-human-rights","tag-masks","tag-public-health-measures","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-states","tag-universal-masking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3063,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions\/3063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}