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9/27/09 Interview 2

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Part 2: In his Difficult Decisions In Health Care series, Dr. Gregory Eastwood adds an ethical dimension to the swirling debate surrounding health care reform.

Health Information Center Resources for Ethics in Health Care Reform:

Books:

• For the patients' good: the restoration of beneficence in health care. By Edmund D Pellegrino. Published by Oxford University Press, 1988.
• Critical condition: how health care in America became big business--and bad medicine. By Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele. Published by Doubleday, 2004.
• Beneficence and health care. Edited by Earl E. Shelp. Publsihed by D. Reidel, 1982.
• Books available through bookstores and libraries, including the Health Information Center and Amazon.com.

Other:

• Health Care Reform, from The Hastings Center.
• Health Care Cost Monitor, from The Hastings Center.
• Health Coverage and the Uninsured, from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
• Private, Public Health Plan Subscribers Rate Plans Similarly - Gallup Poll from Gallup.com .
• 2009 Health Insurance Plan Satisfaction Study, from JDPower.com.
• The Commonwealth Fund Survey of Public Views of the U.S. Health Care System, 2008.

HEALTH INFORMATION CENTER
at SUNY Upstate Medical University

If you have questions, suggestions of ethical conundrums or stories to share, contact us:

• by e-mail at medicalethics at upstate.edu
• by phone at 315.464.4545 (toll free 877.464.4545)
• or mail to: Medical Ethics - HLOA, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse NY 13210

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