Bioethics Is Important to Us All.(considering human genome project)(Brief Article)

From: Healthcare Financial Management | Date: August 1, 2001| Author: Long, Ronald R. | Copyright information

This year's ANI, the best-attended ANI in HFMA history, took up a number of serious issues with which healthcare financial managers currently are grappling. One of the most serious issues involved the recent success of the human genome project in the mapping of the human genome. Keynote speaker Susan Pauker, MD, FAAP, FACMG, chair of the department of genetics at Pilgrim Healthcare in Boston, Massachusetts, asked ANI attendees to think about the human genome project in terms of wha...

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