ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE ALLOCATION OF ORGANS AND OTHER SCARCE MEDICAL RESOURCES AMONG PATIENTS

Authors
CLARKE OW GLASSON J EPPS CH PLOWS CW RUFF V AUGUST A KLIGER CM WILKINS GT COSGRIFF JH ORENTLICHER D HARWOOD K LESLIE J
Citation
Ow. Clarke et al., ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE ALLOCATION OF ORGANS AND OTHER SCARCE MEDICAL RESOURCES AMONG PATIENTS, Archives of internal medicine, 155(1), 1995, pp. 29-40
Citations number
57
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Archives of internal medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
00039926
Volume
155
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
29 - 40
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-9926(1995)155:1<29:ECITAO>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
Physicians' efforts on behalf of patients often involve the use of res ources that, because of naturally limited supply or economic constrain ts, are not readily available to all who need them. The dilemma in suc h cases is how physicians may fulfill their ethical duties to ''do all that [they] can for the benefit of the individual patient''(1) when t he care that they can provide is constrained by the scarcity of needed resources.