title: Medicine as business, learned profession, and moral enterprise: an evolution of emphasis, 1905-2005.
abstract: Despite criticisms of the medical profession from certain quarters, organized medicine has in many ways been a positive force for advancing physicians' ethics and professionalism. Review of articles published in The Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association through the past century suggests sustained concern and increasing sophistication in how we deal with these topics.
authors.forename: Charles S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Bryan
authors.forename: Donald E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Saunders
mesh_terms: D004992:Ethics, Medical / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D009014:Morals; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000266:history*; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000266:history*; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000266:history*; D013022:South Carolina