title: Medical economics and morality: the conflict of canons.
abstract: The more the economics of cost containment becomes an ideology, taking on a moral tone, the more it conflicts with the traditional medical morality. Looking at the canons of "good" economics in health care and at the canons of "good" medicine and examining the potential conflicts may point to methods of equilibrating their opposing tendencies.
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics*; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000191:economics; D012941:Social Responsibility; D012945:Social Values; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000191:economics