Medicine's changing economics have already fundamentally, permanently altered the relationship between physician and patient, E. Haavi Morreim argues. Physicians must weigh a patient's interests against the legitimate, competing claims of other patients, of payers, of society...
"A thoughtful discussion of the implications of the changing economics of medicine for the obligations of physicians & patients toward one another & toward society as a whole...an excellent book."-Mary Ann Baily, The Journal of Clinical Ethics.