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Abstract
Modern American medicine has wedded scientific advance to a small business model of the individual practitioner, defining professionalism as technical understanding. If the profession is to survive, it must draw on older ideals of the learned professions as acting on behalf of the community, and reinvigorate a ovic understanding of professional life.Keywords: Health Care and Public Health; Nineteenth Century; Twentieth Century
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Year: 1999 PMID: 10321334
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Hastings Cent Rep ISSN: 0093-0334 Impact factor: 2.683