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Dec. 11 - Grateful Patient Donations Present Ethical Concerns For Doctors

Cuts in federal funding have left the American health care industry looking for new sources of money. One new method that health care providers have come up with is to have doctors solicit financial contributions from grateful patients. Dr. Joseph Carrese of John Hopkins Medicine was the first professional ethicist to question this idea, and he told K-S-F-R's Dave Marash on HERE AND THERE how 20 of his medical colleagues responded to his questions.