The AMA Is Working to Stop Religious Exemptions and Requires Doctors to Encourage Patients to Get Vaccinated
In 2021, the American Medical Association (AMA amended its Code of Medical Ethics Section 8.7 to include this requirement: “As professionals committed to promoting the welfare of individual patients and the health of the public and to safeguarding their own and their colleagues’ well-being, physicians have an ethical responsibility to encourage patients to accept immunization …