title: Medical practice as a public trust.
abstract: Medicine as a profession is entrusted with the responsibility to prevent disease and treat the sick--a responsibility that has both personal and social dimensions. The profession's social conscience is being called upon anew as Americans devise an ethic of the common provision of health care.
authors.affiliation: Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston 77550.
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Carson
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D004782:Environmental Health; D010820:Physicians; D012922:Social Change; D012941:Social Responsibility; D014481:United States