PHLB09H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Ronald Dworkin, Defensive Medicine, Ageism
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The enormously sophisticated and complex equipment and the highly trained teams of experts requisite for: we assume that the facilities available in terms of human resources, mechanical instrumentalities, The traditional medical ethos has insulated the physician against facing the very existence of this problem. The elt issue poses a genuine policy question for the responsible administrators in medical institutions, Zainab ali its utilization are scarce resources in relation to potential demand indeed a question that threatens to become commonplace in the foreseeable future. Now what the medical administrator needs to have, and what the philosopher is presumably ex officio in a position to help in providing, is a body of rational guidelines for making choices in these literally life-or- death situations. All of these interested parties are entitled to insist that a reasonable code of operating principles provides a defensible rationale for making the life-and-death choices involved in elt.
