{"id":39,"date":"2008-11-29T09:56:11","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T14:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/?p=39"},"modified":"2008-11-29T10:17:47","modified_gmt":"2008-11-29T15:17:47","slug":"free-markets-and-medical-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2008\/11\/29\/free-markets-and-medical-ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Markets and Medical Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/covertrationingblog.com\/general-rationing-issues\/what-drrich-means-by-the-once-ethical-medical-profession\">The Covert Rationing Blog<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nHe quotes a journal piece:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is untenable for the medical profession to coninue asserting an idealistic ethic that is contradicted so openly in clinical practice. . .We propose that devotion to the best medical interests of each individual patient be replaced with an ethic of devotion to the best medical interests of the group [of patients] for which the physician is personally responsible.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><code>from:Hall MA, Berenson RA. Ethical practice in managed care: a dose of realism. Ann Intern Med. 1998; 128:395-402.<br \/>\n <\/code><br \/>\nThis is a good example of how not having the patient paying for care allows ne forces the doctor to serve two masters in terms of &#8216;best medical interests&#8217;. Individuals are treated by physicians not groups. <\/p>\n<p>The whole post is very worthwhile. He goes onto cite pioneering work by progressives to extend medical ethics to include <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;a third ethcial precept: The Principle of Social Justice. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at The Covert Rationing Blog He quotes a journal piece: It is untenable for the medical profession to coninue asserting an idealistic ethic that is contradicted so openly in clinical practice. . .We propose that devotion to the best medical interests of each individual patient be replaced with an ethic of devotion to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[16,15,17,29,18],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-regulations","tag-add-new-tag","tag-communitarianism","tag-free-markets","tag-healthcare","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}