well here in america its standard practice Alex, we have one of the last free market medical systems in the world, any private practice can manipulate patients beliefs with thier viewpoints to a point, thier are certian state requirmemnts and standards accross the board, but when a hospital is majority funded by a charity group like a church (and i worked in both a totally governement and a "church hospital" at different times as a nurse) its very difficult to leagally force compliance to individual wishes of the general public

add in our nasty medical insurance companies to the mix, and what is standard health care in some places is a circus of ellective procedures in another, fortunately one single type of hospital system doesnt dominate our system in that regaurd and what one doctors has to not treat, or do, another doctor has a practice just for it. ...at a hefty price of course