title: [The medical profession: why is decline inevitable?].
abstract: The deep crisis affecting professions such as doctor or teacher does not seem to us relating to the present juncture. It originates in the particularity of these professions consisting in three requirements necessarily and closely linked that are universal, collective and singular. The singularity of the human being is under questioning since decades. The crisis which is affecting him is, as we think, the first fundamental explanation of the decline of the professions which are concerned with his singularity.
authors.affiliation: Service de diabétologie et d'endocrinologie, Hôpital Saint-Joseph, 185, rue Raymond Losserand 75674 Paris.
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hautecouverture
mesh_terms: D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine / Q000639:trends*; D020380:Needs Assessment; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D010819:Physician's Role; D017009:Professional Autonomy