title: Medicine: business or profession?
abstract: As professionals, doctors have a contractual relationship with society that trains them and confers on them exclusive power to practice medical care. In the contract, power and responsibility should be balanced. When the power is conferred by society to a profession, the profession should take responsibility for society, including the provision of high quality services, and maintain high standard principled conduct and integrity.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Bioethics, CAMS/PUMC, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Xiaomei
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhai
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000941:ethics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D004465:Economic Competition / Q000941:ethics*; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D010819:Physician's Role; D012922:Social Change; D012945:Social Values