Who plays God?
Subtitle: [medicine, money, and ethics in American health care]
By: produced by Mercury Productions ; a production of WETA-TV ; producer, Sharon Ferguson ; director, Joseph Camp ; written by Daniel Bailes, Sharon Ferguson ; written and produced by Jeff Bieber ; executive producer, Larry Klein
Contributors: Strait, George; Reinhardt, Uwe E.; Mercury Productions; WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.); Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Medical care; Cost of Medical care; Medical ethics; Medical policy; Health insurance
Other titles: Medicine, money, and ethics in American health care
Description: (Producer) Explores a variety of life and death situations to illustrate the spectrum of highly controversial ethical decisions made daily in modern American medicine. The program looks at the decisions that underlie the use of health-care dollars. When is life support provided and stopped? Who gets the transplants, the best technology and treatment? Who lives longer and who does not? The program features five segments that portray choices concerning prolonged life support, the painful struggle of extremely premature babies, the allocation of organ transplants, the crises that accompany the inaccessiblity of health insurance, and the often thwarted desire to die with dignity.
Notes: Disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.

Photography, Wally Pfister ... [et al.] ; music by Elliot Su Kolor ; editor, Daniel Bailes, Carol Slatkins.

Host/narrator, George Strait ; guest, Uwe Reinhardt.

DVD-R.
Table of contents: title: Transplant & cancer sequences; title: Preemie, uninsured & assisted suicide sequences.