http://www.bloggernews.net/124116 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Sun, 27 May 2012 19:47:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.bloggernews.net/124116#comment-1555911 IMAP - Medical Professionalism Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:44:48 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/124116#comment-1555911 Pelligrino's comment diagnoses the problem we're facing today. It's interesting to consider how <a href="http://www.imapny.org" rel="nofollow">medical professionalism</a> will stand 20, 30 years from now, when it is beset not only by the profit motive, but by inevitable pressures for rationing. Doctors will be asked to forgo the traditional patient-first mindset to an ethic that looks more broadly at the social utility of each intervention. Pelligrino’s comment diagnoses the problem we’re facing today. It’s interesting to consider how medical professionalism will stand 20, 30 years from now, when it is beset not only by the profit motive, but by inevitable pressures for rationing. Doctors will be asked to forgo the traditional patient-first mindset to an ethic that looks more broadly at the social utility of each intervention.

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