Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Medical Professionalism in Society

1999; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 341; Issue: 21 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1056/nejm199911183412112

1533-4406

Matthew K. Wynia, Stephen R. Latham, Audiey Kao, John W. Berg, Linda L. Emanuel,

Healthcare cost, quality, practices

Today, at the dawn of a new century, genuine medical professionalism is in peril. Increasing-ly, physicians encounter perverse financial incentives, fierce market competition, and the erosion of patients' trust,17 yet most physicians are ill equipped to deal with these threats.8,9 The role of professionalism has been so little discussed that it has virtually disappeared in the battle between those who favor market competition in a trillion-dollar industry and those who seek greater government regulation.8 Physicians, feeling trapped between these camps, are turning to unionization and other tactics.10 In the first half of this century, medical professionalism was generally . . .