Cost-conscious treatments do not have to include rationing or limiting of care, he said. Cost can be one of the biggest patient fears and must be addressed.
The American Medical Association and American College of Physicians are attempted to blur the line between treating patients or being concerned with costs by encouraging physicians to look as cost-consciousness as an ethical stewardship of limited resources to be used wisely.
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