"Doctors [ought] look beyond the needs of their patients and consider social justice"

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's brother, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, is White House Medical Care Advisor. New York Post reports that Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel

wants doctors to look beyond the needs of their patients and consider social justice, such as whether the money could be better spent on somebody else.

Many doctors are horrified by this notion; they'll tell you that a doctor's job is to achieve social justice one patient at a time.

Emanuel, however, believes that "communitarianism" should guide decisions on who gets care.

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