That was one message Linda Duxbury, a professor at the Sprott School of Business at
Carleton University, had for doctors belonging to the baby boomer generation among the …

PURPOSE We undertook a study to examine the characteristics of countries exporting
physicians to the United States according to their relative contribution to the primary care …

Au cours des trois dernières décennies le système de santé américain a subi de profonds
bouleversements: la généralisation des systèmes d'assurance, l'apparition de technologies …

No profession is more fundamentally rooted in an ethic than medicine. In the 21st century,
almost every young American physician graduates from medical school by reciting some …

The delivery of health care involves organizations of varying size and role, from individual
practice associations of sole practitioners or several physicians operating within a particular …

Relationships between clinicians and health care managers are certainly at a low ebb. Roy
Lilley, whilst Chair of Homewood NHS Trust, commenting on doctors, wrote: when they wave …

What do the terms “profession, professional, professionalism” mean in 2002? One dictionary
defines profession as “a calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long and …

This book addresses the fundamental conflict of interest that physicians face in their daily
work lives between the ethics of proper medical care versus the demands of standard …

PROLOGUE: In his landmark work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn put
his finger on the notion that science was a social enterprise and that scientific innovations …

This study of 2,271 senior and mid-level healthcare executives from across the US details a
broad array of unethical practices and a surprising intensity of ethical tensions faced while …