Professionalism in emergency medicine

被引：8

作者：

Finkel, MA

Adams, JG

机构：

[1] Brigham & Womens Hosp, Dept Emergency Med, Boston, MA 02115 USA

[2] Harvard Affiliated Emergency Med Residency, Boston, MA USA

[3] Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Boston, MA USA

来源：

EMERGENCY MEDICINE CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA | 1999年 / 17卷 / 02期

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D O I：

10.1016/S0733-8627(05)70070-5

中图分类号：

R4 [临床医学];

学科分类号：

1002 ; 100602 ;

摘要：

Medical professionalism is service delivered to the patient's interest. It is essential to reinforce this notion because financial pressures threaten the integrity of the patient-physician relationship. Excessive commercialism directly contrasts the ideals of medical professionalism. This fact necessitates re-Examination and reaffirmation of professional behavior. If historical standards of professionalism give way to market-driven incentives, the provision of medical care will become a commodity and practitioners will. be only agents of service delivery. Such a model not only threatens the physician's identity, but also threatens the patient's interests. Medicine can never succeed as a transaction; it can only succeed as a partnership, a trusting exchange with patients, which is the hallmark of professionalism.

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页码：443 / +

页数：9