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Discussions in Bioethics: Critical Choice
198512 min 32 secFilm: Fiction
Direction: Gary Toole
Production: Wolf KoenigAndy Thomson
Script: Gwynne Basen
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?
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Subject categories
- Health and Medicine > BioethicsFinancing and Medicare
- Religion, Beliefs and Ethics > Ethics and Bioethics
Credits
- director
- Gary Toole
- producer
- Wolf Koenig
- executive producer
- Andy Thomson
- script
- Gwynne Basen
- photography
- Roger Martin
- sound
- Raymond Marcoux
- editing
- Rita Roy
- sound editing
- Wojtek Klis
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- cast
- Kirsten Bishopric
- Kathryn Cleveland
- Chantal Condor
- Brian Dooley
- Joanna Noyes
- Kelly Ricard
- Michael Tait
Awards
- Prizes awarded to each of the eight films in the series - Category: Health and Medicine International Film Festival