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The precident is about elective surgury.
Basically, this doctor and hospital gets the same money if you smoke or not, and the load on the health care system and on the doctor is higher if you are a smoker.
If a doctor wants to not treat lawyers for cosmetic surgury, more power to her. Her freedom to not operate is as important, or more so, than the lawyers freedom to get cosmetic surgury.
Now, if the AMA decided, en-mass, they wouldn't treat lawyers, that would be a qualitiatively different thing. Because now you would have the law saying "you can only get cosmetic surgury from the AMA, and the AMA says you cannot get cosmetic surgury from them."