• Emerg. Med. Clin. North Am. · May 1999

    Review

    Professionalism in emergency medicine.

    • M A Finkel and J G Adams.
    • Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
    • Emerg. Med. Clin. North Am. 1999 May 1;17(2):443-50.

    AbstractAt its root, medical professionalism is service delivered according to patient's interest. It is essential to reinforce this notion because financial pressures threaten the integrity of the patient-physician relationship. Excessive commercialism directly contrasts the ideals of medical professionalism. This fact necessitates re-examination and reaffirmation of professional behavior. If historical standards of professionalism give way to market-driven incentives, the provision of medical care will become a commodity and the practitioners will be only agents of service delivery. Such a model not only threatens the the physician's identity, but also threatens the patient's interests. Medicine can never succeed as a transaction; it can only succeed as a partnership, a trusting exchange with patients, which is the hallmark of professionalism.

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