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Health Care Reform and the Future of Physician Ethics
Author(s) -
Wolf Susan M.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3562181
Subject(s) - health care reform , health care , family medicine , bioethics , nursing , medicine , political science , law , health policy
Health care reform proposals threaten to exacerbate tensions physicians already face in trying to balance traditional duties to individual patients against increasing pressure to serve broader societal and institutional goals. To cope with reform, medical ethics must clarify physicians' moral obligations, change existing ethical codes, and develop an ethics of institutions.