title: Capitated care is ethical.
abstract: Medicine is, at its center, a moral enterprise grounded in a covenant of trust. This covenant obliges physicians to be competent and to use their competence in the patient's best interests. Physicians, therefore, are both intellectually and morally obliged to act as advocates for the sick wherever their welfare is threatened and for their health at all times.
authors.affiliation: Prime Vision Health Group, Raleigh, NC 27601, USA.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Durfee
mesh_terms: D002204:Capitation Fee / Q000592:standards*; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States