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HASTINGS CENTER REPORT 21 July-August 2006 ments might well do considerably more research when choosing a provider. Here, unlike in the pharmacy setting, it is hard to imagine prospective patients walking in off the street for care. If any physicians opting out of performing certain procedures on certain patients publicize their decisions adequately, it appears unlikely that prospective patients will be highly inconvenienced. 11 They will simply go elsewhere. Finally, it is worth considering whether doctors should be held to the same standards as other providers of public services and public accommodations. The nature of the doctorpatient relationship is fundamentally more intimate than the sorts of interactions that occur between landlords and tenants or innkeepers and guests.(The question does arise as to whether IVF offered to a fertile patient is “health care” or merely a straightforward business deal, but …