title: Professional ethics vs. cost containment: the inevitable clash.
abstract: Observing that the Hippocratic Oath is on a collision course with the cost-containment movement, a prominent medical ethicist asks whether a physician ethically can refuse to treat patients with inadequate insurance coverage and if different levels of care are permissible.
authors: Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, DC.
authors: R M
authors: RM
authors: Veatch
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control / Q000592:standards; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D015276:Health Care Rationing / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D010819:Physician's Role; D016079:Refusal to Treat; D014481:United States