In a powerful new article published by the Daily Journal, Walkup Melodia Kelly & Schoenberger medical negligence counsel Christian R. Jagusch, MD, JD and law fellow Katherine Hazen expose how post-Dobbs legal uncertainty and restrictive religious hospital policies are putting physicians and patients at risk. Drawing on the San Francisco lawsuit Harrison v. Dignity Health and other recent cases, their article details how doctors in Catholic hospital systems face an impossible choice: follow institutional mandates endangering patients or honor their ethical duty to provide life-saving care. Their analysis reveals how these conflicts have led to tragic outcomes, even in California, and why legal ambiguity after Dobbs and Moyle continues to erode trust in the medical system. Dr. Jagusch and Ms. Hazen call for a return to the true core of medicine—placing patients, not institutions, at the moral center of care. Read more: (PDF)