title: Doctoring: the philosophic milieu.
abstract: To understand fully a physician's role in society, and to deal successfully with the current sense of crisis, the medical profession must evolve a world-view that appropriately relates a physician to the patient, to the practice environment, to the base of knowledge, and to the physician's own sense of self. Such a world-view would be multilevel and interdisciplinary, and would be based on interactions and adaptations of physicians to life systems. Medicine's world-view must provide a philosophic milieu intérieur that leads to a proper equilibrium between medicine's technologic skills and its humanistic concerns.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Greenville.
authors.forename: C D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Bessinger
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006706:Homeostasis; D006808:Humanism; D006809:Humanities; D006801:Humans; D007721:Knowledge of Results, Psychological; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D010819:Physician's Role; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology*; D012380:Role