A recent article in a a relatively obscure medical ethics journal dared to approach some important aspects of medical ethics that medical et...
Showing posts with label professionalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label professionalism. Show all posts
The Parts of Professionalism We Are Not Supposed to Discuss
A recent article in a a relatively obscure medical ethics journal dared to approach some important aspects of medical ethics that medical et...
Should Health Care be a "'Commodity, Subordinate to the Laws of the Market?" - a Powerful Rebuttal
In the US, it has become the accepted wisdom that health care is now an industry, not a calling or a profession, and the health care it prod...
Using a "Professionalism" Initiative as a Speech Code to Punish Students' Criticisms of Administrative Authority?
The original impetus to set up Health Care Renewal was increasing evidence of external threats to physicians' professional values. So ...
"Health Professionals for a New Century": Calling for "Ethical Conduct," a "New Professionalism," and Improved "Stewardship" and "Social Accountability"
A major article just published in the Lancet urged global reform of health care education [Frenk J, Chen L, Bhutta ZA, Cohen J, Crisp N, Ev...
How the Fallacy of the "Perfect" Health Care Market Undermined Professionalism and Caused Health Care Dysfunction - in the New York Times
We began this blog way back in 2005 to discuss threats to physicians' values, especially from concentration and abuse of power. Persona...
