Professional ethics in health care: an introduction.
Discussions about issues in medical ethics are often frustrated by the failure to distinguish other concerns: legal and institutional rules, personal values, and personal moralities. Progress can be made if the medical profession reaches a prior agreement on its core values--what the good physician ought to care about--and a consensus on how these values are to be respected by physicians facing ethical dilemmas.
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Department of Philosophy, University of Hawaii, Manoa.
D000328:Adult; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D004995:Ethics, Professional; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007325:Institutional Practice; D008297:Male; D009014:Morals; D010819:Physician's Role; D012945:Social Values