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What Is Left of Professionalism after Managed Care?

The Hastings Center ReportPublished 4 March 1999Open access
William M. Sullivan
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TL;DR

If the profession is to survive, it must draw on older ideals of the learned professions as acting on behalf of the community, and reinvigorate a ovic understanding of professional life.

Abstract

Modern American medicine has wedded scientific advance to a small business model of the individual practitioner, defining professionalism as technical understanding. If the profession is to survive, it must draw on older ideals of the learned professions as acting on behalf of the community, and reinvigorate a ovic understanding of professional life.

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PsychologyMedicine