The Role of Physicians in the Allocation of Health Care: Is Some Justice Better than None?

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 29 (1):1-31 (2019)
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Abstract

Physicians traditionally have been given role-specific obligations to promote the well-being of their individual patients, one patient at a time. They are not expected to be concerned with how health care is best allocated between patients, or with how health-care allocations compare to other social goods and services. The assumption seems to be that our society’s health-care allocation should be the cumulative result of individual clinical decisions made on behalf of individual patients. In this view, physicians are the gatekeepers of health-care allocation, because they are responsible for making clinical decisions about prescriptions and admissions to health-care institutions and other services. But they should...

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