Legislators, providers, hospitals, insurers, lawyers, patients, and drug and device manufacturers must all work together, recognizing the conflicting facets of the debate.
The late Donella H. Meadows, the founder of Vermont's Sustainability Institute, recognized the conflict long before the carbon footprints of everyday objects were a mainstream concern.
In March, the United States Supreme Court recognized the conflict of interest but ruled, 5 to 4, that it did not have an "adverse effect" on the outcome of the case.
The most charitable way to characterize Mr. Clinton's behavior in the case is to accept that he also failed to recognize the conflict and assumed his former lawyer was still in the business of providing him with straightforward analysis on a legal matter, which he clearly did not.
Now that I recognize the conflict, I am looking for a way to reconcile the two and express empathy while helping others to get better results than the diminished lives they are accepting in their statement.
Those of us who recognized the conflict between economic growth and environmental protection won the debates because we were right and we demonstrated it, ad nauseum, theoretically and empirically.
Much of my economics career has been devoted to analyzing the squeeze on middle- and low-income families, and I absolutely recognize the conflict between higher prices on goods which comprise a disproportionate share of their budgets and the need for these goods to accurately reflect the risks they engender.
Paulsson [16] recognized the conflict between two levels of selection in the control of plasmid copy numbers.
The Government Accountability Office recognized the conflict of not listing inert ingredients, even though some are toxic, as long ago as 1975.
