A HEALTHY DEBATE
You Shouldn't Always Get What You Need: Health Care and Common Sense
This year's Alumni Lecture Series highlights the University of Toronto's new Centre for Ethics at Trinity College.
On April 2, Prof. Gopal Sreenivasan, Canada Research Chair in Justice and Health Care at the University of Toronto, will focus on what we should reasonably expect from our health care system. "Public discussion of health care usually assumes that a morally decent health care system will provide citizens with whatever (effective) treatments they need," he says.
The language of the Canada Health Act encourages this assumption, with its focus on the criterion of 'medical necessity.' "But this is, to use a technical expression, crazy," says Sreenivasan. This lecture will explain why and explore what follows.
Admission must be reserved at (416) 978-2651, or alumni@trinity.utoronto.ca
What?
Gopal Sreenivasan
Canada Research Chair in Justice and Health Care,
University of Toronto
You Shouldn't Always Get What You Need: Health Care and Common Sense
When?
Monday, April 2, 7.30 p.m.
Where?
George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire Place, Trinity College
A reception will follow in The Buttery
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