Possible end to ethics network ‘a real mistake’

March 11, 2010

A provincial network that has helped patients, health-care workers and health regions with difficult medical ethics questions could fold because of funding cuts. Supporters say Alberta Health should reinstate funding to the Provincial Health Ethics Network. They say the loss will lessen the province’s ability to thoughtfully deal with ethical dilemmas likely to increase with an aging population, new technologies, more experimental drugs and growing chronic health problems. (Edmonton Journal)