Removing Morality from your Health Care | Dr. Michael S. Parker | Ruth Institute 4th Annual Summit

The Summit for Survivors of The Sexual Revolution is an annual event to count the costs of the sexual revolution and give its victims a voice.

Dr. Michael S. Parker, MD, KM is the System Medical Director for OB/GYN Hospitalists Mount Carmel Health in Columbus, Ohio. He is the current President of the National Catholic Medical Association. As a member of the Catholic Medical Association since 1999, he was a founding member of the John Paul II Guild and served as the original guild president. At the level of the national organization, he has served as Regional Director, Regional Director Representative to the Board of the Catholic Medical Association and National Treasurer and Vice-President.

Dr. Parker serves as Medical Consultant and Board Member of The Women’s Care Center, a crisis pregnancy center in Columbus, OH. He is also on the Board of The Order of Malta Center of Care in Columbus, Oh, which is a collaborative effort between the Order of Malta and the Catholic Medical Association to provide free health care to the homeless and underserved.

"Catholic Medical Association:
Mission: Form and Support current and future physicians to live and promote the principles of our faith in the science and practice of medicine.
Vision: Inspire physicians to imitate the divine healer Jesus Christ. "

"Interactions with patients are now transactional versus relational. There are no longer relationships that are built on mutual trust and compassion. This is not only affecting the quality of care, it's being provided by our patients, but its's leading to burnout among physicians because they didn't go into medicine to have a 15 minute transaction where I provide you with whatever you want. I'm not your barista, I'm your physician."

"One of the biggest regulations that's under attack right now is conscience protection for health care workers, and that if a physician, doctor, other health care workers have a moral objection is performing certain procedures, such as abortion, euthanasia, gender reassignment surgery, that they cannot allow their either religious beliefs or deeply held conscience beliefs to interfere with that service being provided."

The Catholic Medical Association:
www.cathmed.org

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