Despite their general lack of medical expertise, legislators across the country have enacted laws that force medical providers to give patients medically inaccurate information and to perform medically unnecessary tests and procedures. Legislators have also enacted laws that limit what medical providers are able to ask or say to their patients. Now, the Patient Trust Act, a bill pending in the Pennsylvania General Assembly and supported by the Philadelphia Bar Association, offers relief for medical providers and their patients. If passed, it would be an important step toward stopping lawmakers from interfering in the doctor-patient relationship.
There are numerous examples of political interference in this relationship. In Kansas, Mississippi and Texas, for instance, medical providers must give patients information—or refer them to state-mandated written information—that falsely associates abortion with an increased risk of breast cancer. No reputable medical research supports any such relationship.
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