The traditional view of medical ethics is that a physician has a duty to his or her individual patient, rather than to society as a whole. Under that view, a physician should not deny a potentially beneficial treatment for one patient, in order to save costs or conserve resources for other current or future patients, or for the patients of any other physician. Should that traditional view of medical ethics be changed? If not, how should we accommodate society’s need to ration care with the physician’s ethical duty to not ration care?

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Where it is the physician rather than a plan administrator that traditional physician/patient relationship?
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Answer 1

"how should we accommodate society’s need to ration care"

Are you sure society has a "need to ration care"? What's the source of that statement?

Answer 2

It is ethics of health care

Answer 3

Is "ethics of health care" a book, an article? Or what? Who is the author?

Answer 4

dean harris

Answer 5

it is describing socialism because its not free not everything comes free?

Answer 6

I disagree with the basic premise about rationing. However, you may find some good information in some of these sites.

http://www.google.com/#q=ethics+of+healthcare+harris+rationing&*