title: [The ethics of appropriateness and the appropriateness of ethics. Comments on a current topic of which we know little and which we discuss even less].
abstract: Doctors and patients "alone on a desert island or in health market?". Antinomy is strongly paradoxical and provocative to invite us to think on two extreme lines of thinking modalities about fragile, variable, and changed relationship between doctors and patients in the light of the new health business administration. Probably, the balance point exists and may be found only introducing three main elements into the complex problem: patient in the middle, health care accuracy, ethical behavior, not only of the single doctor but also of the overall health system.
authors.affiliation: Primario Divisione di Cardiologia, Azienda Ospedaliera V. Monaldi, Napoli. nmininni@tin.it
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authors.lastname: Mininni
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011057:Politics