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A refusal of a physician to treat an AIDS patient
{ 1 } - is justifiable because medicine is a business, and treating AIDS patients is economically unsound.
{ 2 } - may be justifiable because responsibility for health care is an obligation of the profession in general and not of the individual.
{ 3 } - is not justifiable on the grounds that it involves a health risk to the physician.
{ 4 } - is justifiable because no one is obliged to help another at risk to his own health.
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A refusal of a physician to treat an AIDS patient
{ 1 } - is justifiable because medicine is a business, and treating AIDS patients is economically unsound.
{ 2 } - may be justifiable because responsibility for health care is an obligation of the profession in general and not of the individual.
{ 3 } - is not justifiable on the grounds that it involves a health risk to the physician.
{ 4 } - is justifiable because no one is obliged to help another at risk to his own health.
Treating AIDS patients may be economically unprofitable, but medicine's goal is not economic profit.
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A refusal of a physician to treat an AIDS patient
{ 1 } - is justifiable because medicine is a business, and treating AIDS patients is economically unsound.
{ 2 } - may be justifiable because responsibility for health care is an obligation of the profession in general and not of the individual.
{ 3 } - is not justifiable on the grounds that it involves a health risk to the physician.
{ 4 } - is justifiable because no one is obliged to help another at risk to his own health.
See p. 74.
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A refusal of a physician to treat an AIDS patient
{ 1 } - is justifiable because medicine is a business, and treating AIDS patients is economically unsound.
{ 2 } - may be justifiable because responsibility for health care is an obligation of the profession in general and not of the individual.
{ 3 } - is not justifiable on the grounds that it involves a health risk to the physician.
{ 4 } - is justifiable because no one is obliged to help another at risk to his own health.
Reasonable risks are part of the health care profession and are assumed on entering the profession.
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A refusal of a physician to treat an AIDS patient
{ 1 } - is justifiable because medicine is a business, and treating AIDS patients is economically unsound.
{ 2 } - may be justifiable because responsibility for health care is an obligation of the profession in general and not of the individual.
{ 3 } - is not justifiable on the grounds that it involves a health risk to the physician.
{ 4 } - is justifiable because no one is obliged to help another at risk to his own health.
See p. 74.
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