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Catalogue Number: NFB526119
Producer: National Film Board Of Canada
Producers: Wolf Koenig, Andy Thomson
Directors: Gary Toole
Producing Agencies: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)
Subject: Fiction, Health and Medicine, Medicine, Religious Studies
Language: English
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 1985
Running Time: 12:32
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Discussions in Bioethics: Critical Choice - DVD
Catalogue Number: NFB526119
Producer: National Film Board Of Canada
Producers: Wolf Koenig, Andy Thomson
Directors: Gary Toole
Producing Agencies: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)
Subject: Fiction, Health and Medicine, Medicine, Religious Studies
Language: English
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 1985
Running Time: 12:32
Click here for pricing
One of a series of short, open-ended dramas designed to stimulate discussion of values and ethics in relation to modern medical technology. The film considers the cost of high-risk organ transplants and the allocation of scarce medical resources. A child is in need of a liver transplant. The child has only a 40% chance of surviving with the transplant, but a 100% chance of dying without it. How should society's limited medical dollars be spent?