Here’s a modern day ethical situation for your consideration:
 

If, during the course of his practice, a physician becomes aware of significant health risks associated with particular lifestyle behaviors, does he have a professional duty to inform his patients – as well as the public-at-large – about those findings?

 
Huh? Kind of seems like a no-brainer doesn’t it? At least that’s what Dr. Paul Church thought.
 
Not so the geniuses at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where Church has been practicing urology for almost 30 years. No, the hospital’s medical board actually fired the good doctor – for telling the truth.

 
MassResistance has been covering this travesty for the past year ~

Dr. Paul Church has been a urologist on the BIDMC staff for nearly 30 years and is a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty. He has done research on diagnosing prostate and bladder cancer, and has spoken on the subject of high-risk sexual behaviors.
 
As MassResistance has reported, earlier this year, a BIDMC committee of high-ranking doctors and administrators decided that Dr. Church’s statements to colleagues about the medical dangers of homosexual behavior, and moral issues surrounding it, were “offensive” and constituted “discrimination,” “harassment,” and “unprofessional conduct.” Thus, they expelled Dr. Church from the BIDMC medical staff.
 
The hospital’s expulsion of Dr. Church was based completely on non-medical reasons having nothing to do with patient care. A representative of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons calls it a “sham peer review” which they describe as “a general term describing the misuse of hospital by-laws to intimidate and control physicians.”

The Stream recently featured an article by Dr. Michael Brown about this absurd situation; When Political Correctness toward Homosexuals Stops Doctors from Doing Their Jobs.

 
Dr. Brown pointed out the absurdity of the hospital’s action by comparing homosexual sex acts to other unsafe activities ~

Would the hospital promote “pride” events for cigarette smokers or obese children? Then why would it promote gay pride events if the health risks of homosexual sex were documented and well-known? […]

 

Of course, I’m all for doctors being culturally sensitive to the unique challenges faced by particular groups of people, and part of the proposed training would no doubt be aimed at increasing that sensitivity.
 
But there’s no doubt that it would also create an atmosphere of extreme hostility to anyone who would dare to “offend” gays by warning them that homosexual acts can be detrimental to their health, while the failure of any doctor to celebrate homosexuality would be deemed a breach of professional conduct.
 
This is when political correctness becomes deadly.

In a culture that actually still placed a value and dignity on each individual human life, this sort of arbitrary censure would be unconscionable. But in the Amoral States of America, the progressive elite doesn’t want women to know about the abortion-breast cancer link, or potential military enlistees to know that gay male rape is out of control in the Armed Forces. So I guess we shouldn’t be shocked that they don’t really care about the physical and emotional health of homosexuals either.

 
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Related:
Dr. Brown spoke with Dr. Church on his — radio show. You can listen HERE.