In light of the projection of increasing deficits in the present Medicare program, we must rethink our goals for health in old age and curb our insatiable appetite for longer life regardless of expense. The failure ...

...The goals of medicine in the face of biological aging should be, above all, to target those physical and mental conditions that tend to rob old age of human meaning and social significance. Medicine cannot create ...

Callahan challenges assumptions about the meaning of health and the goals of health care in an essay on the future of American medicine. He believes that medical advances have exacted a high human cost, creating a greater ...