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Volume 351:2552-2553 December 9, 2004 Number 24
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A Bridge to Heart Transplantation

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To the Editor: In the Perspective article by Renlund (Aug. 26 issue)1 on the use of a total artificial heart as a bridge to transplantation, the author's contention that a physician should do whatever is necessary to save an individual human life raises several questions. In a medical system that appears to be financially nonsustainable,2 should physicians continue largely to ignore escalating treatment costs, even at the peril of that system? If a large monetary outlay for one patient limits medical care for others, how should a physician seek the greater good? If, because of cost, a certain treatment is . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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