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Previous Volume 334:1275-1276 May 9, 1996 Number 19

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By Donald J. Murphy. 326 pp. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995. $23. ISBN 0-87113-587-6.

Donald J. Murphy's book is a superb, lucid discussion of medical ethics and how patients and doctors can best use the health care system as the individual patient wants it used. Murphy discusses respect for the different points of view of patients and physicians that influence health care decisions (with physicians favoring the public health approach and patients favoring the approach that is best for them individually). He also discusses medical futility, the obligation to attempt resuscitation, and informed consent. He touches on the terrible fact that, faced with the choice between reducing deficits and investing resources to address health . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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