Malpractice, ethics, and resident training.
Although patient care issues will become more complex, the basic ingredients of ethical and legally "safe" medicine will remain-quality medical care buttressed by quality patient-physician relationships. Teaching hospitals and program directors must assist residents in accomplishing these goals. Our successes will lead to further improvement in the quality of patient care and medical education-and hopefully to a better end than the "big crunch" proposed by Hawking.
D004992:Ethics, Medical; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000592:standards*; D008318:Malpractice; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States