Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: How Bioethics Can Learn from Organized Medicine

This editorial appears in the Jan 2022 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. Elizabeth P. Clayborne and Marcella Nunez-Smith As physicians, the supreme importance of health and its integral role in any individual’s pursuit of life, liberty and happiness is exhibited on a daily basis. It is abundantly clear that without health one cannot focus on any other facet of life and therefore health serves as the foundation on which wellness is grounded. It has also become clear that social determinants of health have a significant influence on health status and remain paradoxically the most malleable and yet the most challenging paradigm through which we can improve the lives of human beings.…
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