Outstanding representatives of the medical, legal, and state public service communities debate the ethics involved in making life and death decisions in an age of costs and limits in medical care. Ron Powers of Middlebury, an Emmy and Pulitzer Prize winning media critic, moderates a panel of eleven and examines two case studies. Panel members include: Arnold Golodetz, M.D. of Burlington; John Dooley, J.D. of Montpelier; Joseph Hagan, M.D. of South Burlington; Howard Dean, M.D. and Lieutenant Governor, of Shelburne; Pat Rock, R.N. at MCHV, of Burlington; Veronica Celani, Commissioner of the Department of Social Welfare, of Waterbury; Joan Blankenship of Peacham; James Bell, M.D. of White River Junction; Fr. Edward Mahoney, St. Michael's College of Colchester; Chris Weinheimer, Senior Vice President for Finance of MCHV, of Burlington; and Victor Nuovo, Professor of Philosophy at Middlebury College.
