The Indian Health Service was created within the Department of Health and Human Services to integrate traditional Indian healing with Western biomedicine.
With good planning and good will, medical professionals’ right of conscience and patients’ rights to controversial services can be both protected and accommodated.
Medical school admission committees can act within current legal guidelines to identify and recruit students from groups that are underrepresented in medicine.
Limiting the right of patients to make their own medical decisions can be justified only when a patient lacks the competence to do so or pose a threat to others.