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PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP

Physician Refusal To Treat

RESOLVED, That the North Carolina Medical Society opposes physician refusal to treat a patient whose condition is within the physician’s current realm of competence solely because the patient has a specific health condition.

(Report F-2006, adopted 10/29/2006)
(reaffirmed, Report H-2011, Item 3-45, adopted 10/23/2011)
(technical corrections, Board Report-2018, Item 88, adopted 11/3/2018)