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01-09-2007 | Ethics

Professionalism and Medicine

Author: C. Ronald MacKenzie, MD

Published in: HSS Journal ® | Issue 2/2007

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The practice of medicine is not a business and can never be one ... Our fellow creatures cannot be dealt with as a man deals in corn and coal; the human heart by which we live must control our professional relations.

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In contemporary times, a third potentially dominant pathway of medical ethics known as organizational ethics has emerged to address ethical issues associated with the business and managerial aspects of healthcare organizations. This approach recognizes that the quality of care experienced by patients depends in part on the values of the healthcare organization with which they and their physicians and other heath care providers interact [7].

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Title: Professionalism and Medicine
Author: C. Ronald MacKenzie, MD
Publication date: 01-09-2007
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: HSS Journal ® / Issue 2/2007
Print ISSN: 1556-3316
Electronic ISSN: 1556-3324
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11420-007-9054-3

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