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Donald F. Phillips
JAMA contributor

JAMA. 1998;280:2060-2062.

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FINDING the locus for ethical responsibility in the realm of managed care has become great sport among medical and health care organizations in recent years. Initially, conference programs designed to explore this subject focused on identifying and assigning blame for the problems associated with managed care. More recent programs contain civil and reflective analysis of the complexity of the problems and discussions of potential solutions.

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The American Society for Law, Medicine & Ethics (ASLM&E), with its diverse membership from the fields of law, medicine, ethics, and public policy, is well poised to address these complexities. It did so by sponsoring a conference, held in Cambridge, Mass, in October, to "explore the components of an ethical framework for managed care decision making that incorporates patient interests and concerns."

A diverse faculty of experts (ie, those who have been through managed care battles) seemed to share a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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