Search warrant case at center of Mercy Health lawsuit raises ethical, procedural issues
Elyria Chronicle-Telegram: Mark Aulisio, the Susan E. Watson Professor and Chair of the Department of Bioethics at the School of Medicine, weighed in on a search warrant and invasive exam Mercy Health physicians refused to execute on a man in police custody in August. “What if it came to be a widely held view that health professionals will act as extensions of law enforcement or extensions of the judiciary?” Aulisio said. “Do you think that people who are maybe in legally ambiguous circumstances would ever seek care? Some meaningful percentage of them would avoid care and that would be potentially a public health disaster. The stakes are pretty high here.”
