TITLE

Medical Progress

AUTHOR(S)
Todd, James S.
PUB. DATE
July 1990
SOURCE
Vital Speeches of the Day;7/1/90, Vol. 56 Issue 18, p557
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Speech
ABSTRACT
Presents a speech by James S. Todd, Senior Deputy Executive Vice President for the American Medical Association, delivered at the First Annual Moses Cleveland Lecture for Health Care, January 24, 1989. Social responsibility in health care; Suggestion that we need to shift our notion of quality from doing everything scientifically possible for everybody everywhere all the time, to doing that which needs to be done with reasonable expectation of benefit; The responsibilities of both doctors and patients.
ACCESSION #
9007300031

Tags: TODD, James;  MEDICAL care -- United States;  MEDICAL policy;  MEDICARE;  PUBLIC health;  SPEECHES, addresses, etc.

 

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