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- Jonathan Clemens.
- Jonathan Clemens practices at Littlerock Family Medicine in Tumwater, Wash., is a postgraduate student at Western Seminary in Portland, Ore., and is president of the Fellowship of Christian PAs. The author has disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
- JAAPA. 2020 Feb 1; 33 (2): 42-45.
AbstractReligious objections to vaccines are in the news, but clinician engagement with patients' underlying religious objections has been minimal, presumably because clinicians lack tools to respectfully address these objections while honoring patient autonomy. This article introduces a four-step framework for exploring and responding to a patient's stated religious objections to vaccination, culminating in suggested approaches for respectful and collaborative discussions to encourage optimum patient protection consistent with informed consent and patient belief systems. Three hypothetical situations are presented and evaluated.
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