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What Is Left of Professionalism after Managed Care?
Author(s) -
SULLIVAN WILLIAM M.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1002/j.1552-146x.1999.tb00042.x
Subject(s) - sociology , public relations , engineering ethics , medicine , nursing , political science , engineering
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 civic understanding of professional life.