Professional ethics vs. cost containment: the inevitable clash
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Professional ethics vs. cost containment: the inevitable clash
Internist.
1991 Jun.
Abstract
Observing that the Hippocratic Oath is on a collision course with the cost-containment movement, a prominent medical ethicist asks whether a physician ethically can refuse to treat patients with inadequate insurance coverage and if different levels of care are permissible.
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