The short history and tenuous future of medical professionalism: The erosion of medicine's social contract

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 565-578

  Wynia, Matthew K ^a  

^a AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

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AUTOREGULATION; BOARD OF TRUSTEES; FUTUROLOGY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PROFESSIONALISM; QUALITY CONTROL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW; SCIENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HISTORY; HUMAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HIPPOCRATIC OATH; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58849141736     PISSN: 00315982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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