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When neurologists are asked why they chose neurology as their profession, reasons commonly heard include a fascination with neuroscience and clinical neurology and a strong personal commitment to caring for individuals with neurologic disorders. Unfortunately, rapid, market-driven changes in the health care environment have led many neurologists to believe that financial and time pressures on practice are eroding the quality and traditions of neurologic care and draining the personal fulfillment and satisfaction out of clinical neurology.1It is no longer enough to keep up with advances in neuroscience and clinical neurology. Neurologists must review and integrate emerging practice guidelines, laws, regulations, and insurance rules. Nonmedical considerations intrude increasingly upon clinical time and threaten unhurried, attentive, concerned listening, examining, and counseling. Documentation consumes time that patients expect will be devoted to their needs. The result is an unspoken conflict between patients and physicians over time utilization . From the patient’s perspective, the overall quality of the neurologic care provided in the time available depends upon its humanistic character. From the neurologist’s perspective, commercial interests in medicine do not value traditional aspects of caring that are based on ethical duties of physicians to patients.Medicine is both art and science. The humanistic core of medicine involves the art of listening, empathy, communication, and other interpersonal interactions that are as essential to good clinical neurology as its scientific foundation. Each neurologist should regularly and conscientiously consider the relationship between practice policies adopted to accommodate managed care and the fiduciary duty of every physician to place patient interests first.2The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) supports health care reform that creates conditions favorable to humanistic care by restoring decision making to the physician and …

Humanistic dimensions of professionalism in the practice of neurology