“Just do your job”: technology, bureaucracy, and the eclipse of conscience in contemporary medicine

It’s good for clinicians to have consciences. Conscience requires wisdom. https://t.co/h4BNuTYIkr #TipsForNewDocs

Is it good for clinicians to have consciences? Or should they “just do their job” as dictated to them by others (e.g., boss, law, society)? https://t.co/h8EPNjjq7Q #TipsForNewDocs A few tips framed as questions… https://t.co/IOwhBj00Wy

RT @jcbriscoe1: “Just as it is a mistake to equate the practice of medicine with the practice of science, so is it a mistake to assume that…

“Just as it is a mistake to equate the practice of medicine with the practice of science, so is it a mistake to assume that medical practice is yoked to technological advancement in the same way that science is yoked to progress.” https://t.co/h8EPNjjq7Q #

Objecting to CO is ironic because I don’t think anyone wants a clinician who isn’t conscientious, and yet this is what the movement is teaching us: don’t ask questions, don’t squirm at the nuance, don’t voice your moral distress - just do your job. https:/

This is evident in the push to erode conscientious objection protections. Tools, even if they had consciences, cannot object to the work to which they are put. https://t.co/h8EPNjjq7Q 19/

@RyanAntiel @A_McKethan @JAMAHealthForum ...and the technological, bureaucratic framework, described by Blythe and Curlin, that dissolves the practice of medicine. https://t.co/h8EPNjjq7Q

Tweeting to "read later", a tweet from the day before my biomedical final. “Just do your job”: technology, bureaucracy, and the eclipse of conscience in contemporary medicine by https://t.co/B3ZwpV6Zmj

"A question worth considering is whether we want to entrust ourselves, in our most vulnerable moments, to so-called providers who habitually subordinate their deepest moral convictions. What types of people are capable of this sort of subordination?" https