Current data on the role of physician knowledge, attitudes, and behavior in cost containment are reviewed; several intervention strategies and their results are presented; and recommendations are proposed for increasing the sensitivity of physicians to the financial implications of their clinical decisions. (Author/JMD)

Addresses the importance of developing a relationship between ethics and education, i.e., an epistemology that can combine education with ethics and direct us toward quality. Emphasis is on the human structures of reasoning and their relationship to linguistics and ethics. (Author/SA)