Practising Doctors, Resource Allocation and Ethics
作者:
A. D. B. CHANT,
期刊:
Journal of Applied Philosophy
(WILEY Available online 1989)
卷期:
Volume 6,
issue 1
页码: 71-76
ISSN:0264-3758
年代: 1989
DOI:10.1111/j.1468-5930.1989.tb00379.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
ABSTRACT In order to slow down the inexorable increase in spending on health care, the British government has implemented an initiative proposed by Griffiths. This initiative is designed to make doctors more accountable for the decisions they may take. In this essay I argue first, that the conflation of two decisions (financial and clinical) leads to unnecessary ethical dilemmas and secondly, that as psychologically it is difficult to take two decisions simultaneously, inevitably the clinician is forced to name either the financial or the clinical decision as the prior problem. To decide for the former inevitably strains the traditional doctor/patient relationship of mutual trus
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