DOCTOR AND PATIENT

Putting a Price on Compassion

By PAULINE W. CHEN
Published: January 16, 2009
Have we become so comfortable with money in medicine that we have downgraded once horrifying taboos to fodder for entertaining chatter and monetary calculations?
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