Consider difficult bioethical decisions made by doctors.
Finkelstein has also gone on Twitter to denounce claims made by doctors as "totally untrue".
We believe that medical decisions should be made by doctors, not bureaucrats.
Some of those mistakes are made by doctors whose judgment has been scrambled by lack of sleep.
Traditionally, those decisions have been made by doctors: "rationing" has been a word politicians have striven not to utter.
After an accurate diagnosis was finally made by doctors at New York-Presbyterian MedIcal Center, I was told there was no cure in sight.
Such judgments about a treatment's effectiveness are made by doctors, not by financial administrators, so they tend to be accepted.
In 1990, Croskerry became the head of the emergency department at Dartmouth General Hospital, and was struck by the number of errors made by doctors under his supervision.
By failing to disclose the flaw publicly, the company pre-empted a decision -- whether to remove the flawed devices surgically -- that should be made by doctors and patients.
Dr Clifford Mann, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said the "great efforts" made by doctors and nurses to help patients in under-resourced locations sometimes was not sustainable.
Thank you for the thoughtful article on the decisions made by doctors and parents in raising intersex children ("When Gender Isn't a Given," Sept. 19).
