title: Health care system reform and the changing physician-patient relationship.
abstract: The increasing management of medicine has meant an increasing intrusion into the physician-patient relationship. This has caused a shift in the balance of the basic principles of medical ethics and of the major aspects of the physician-patient relationship.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, USA.
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Swee
mesh_terms: D026686:Beneficence; D030881:Disclosure; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005544:Forecasting; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000639:trends; D028681:Moral Obligations; D009515:New Jersey; D026706:Paternalism; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012922:Social Change; D028761:Withholding Treatment