Many doctors find themselves torn between two contradictory principles: to do the best for the individual patient and to be responsible for an overall budget that is insufficient for the best care for each individual ...

Models of the doctor-patient relationship determine which value will predominate in the interaction of the parties. That value then significantly colors and even sometimes alters the nature of the ethical discussion. ...

In this essay I will examine some of the critique that has been building against autonomy. In doing so I will be concentrating more fully on one of a number of issues I raised in previous work about the limitations ...