title: Physicians and rationing.
abstract: Current cost-containment pressures seem to be leading American health care into a world of rationing. Many people have urged that we resist rationing on the grounds that it would compromise the integrity of the patient-physician relation. I shall argue that rationing is in fact both inevitable and appropriate, but the world of rationing is one in which the role of the moral physician involves complex balancing of moral obligations.
authors.affiliation: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030.
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Brody
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control / Q000639:trends; D015276:Health Care Rationing / Q000191:economics*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D028681:Moral Obligations; D010351:Patient Discharge / Q000191:economics*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D040841:Resource Allocation; D012935:Social Justice; D013781:Texas