News firefighters to go fight a fire without appropriate equipment,” wrote Leong. Doctors also
hold different moral values on matters such as abortion and quality of life. Does that mean …

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

Abstract A Charter on Medical Professionalism (CMA) has just recently been developed
internationally, and the Canadian Medical Association is calling for public dialogue on …

News manner'established that one was practicing medicine in a professional manner.…
physicians began to treat professionalism as something they were owed by a …

With the rising interest in professionalism in medicine has come a plethora of definitions for
the concept of professionalism. They range from the simplest straightforward statement to …

Background The concept of professionalism is dominant within health care education and
the lives of practising clinicians globally, and yet there is no single agreed definition nor …

Professionalism may not be sufficient to drive the profound and far-reaching changes
needed in the US health care system, but without it, the health care enterprise is lost. Formal …

What, if anything, makes medicine different from just another business? Few would have
even thought to pose such a question until fairly recently. Virtually everyone agreed that …

To maintain the fidelity of medicine's social contract during this turbulent time, we believe
that physicians must reaffirm their active dedication to the principles of professionalism …

Wynia and colleagues propose a definition of professionalism as a belief system by which to
shape health care rather than a list of values and behaviors. The belief that professionalism …