Doctors as fiduciaries: a legal construct of the patient-physician relationship Fidelity is the most fundamental ethical principle regulating the medical profession, and it requires medical professionals (MPs) to put their patients’ interests ahead of all others, including their own. The MPs who contracted and/or died of severe acute respiratory syndrome in the 2003 epidemic clearly illustrated both the glory and cost of living with this principle.1 Yet, if we look at the four classic models of the patient-physician relationship (PPR): ‘contractual’, ‘paternalistic’, ‘collegial’, and ‘mentoring’,2 none appears to mandate this level of fidelity from the MP, legally or ethically, because these models of the PPR have been narrowly construed to...
Medical practitioners are regarded as one of the noble professions in society. Muslim medical practi...
the Contract Model H ow VALUES AFFECT the char-acter of professional relationships with clients has ...
The Doctor-Patient Relationship (DPR) is a complex concept in the medical sociology in which patient...
Doctors as fiduciaries: a legal construct of the patient-physician relationship Fidelity is the most...
This Article critically examines calls by scholars, legislators, and regulators advocating the impos...
Heated debate surrounds the question whether the relationship between physician-researcher and patie...
This essay explores some counterintuitive propositions to see what they may add to our understanding...
The goals of medicine as a profession dedicated to healing and caring of the sick in a dignified man...
A traditional ethic of medicine asserts that physicians have special obligations to individual patie...
Medical responsibility has developed rapidly due to scientific progress and modern medical discoveri...
The medical profession has, in the past, been accorded an unparalleled level of deference. It was pe...
Managed care employs two business tools of managed practice that raise important ethical issues: pay...
This Article examines the three major areas of common law that govern the patient-physician relation...
Guiding principles for the development of legislation regulating the doctor-patient relationship and...
Abstract: The emergence rights and obligations as a result of legal relationship between doctors an...
Medical practitioners are regarded as one of the noble professions in society. Muslim medical practi...
the Contract Model H ow VALUES AFFECT the char-acter of professional relationships with clients has ...
The Doctor-Patient Relationship (DPR) is a complex concept in the medical sociology in which patient...
Doctors as fiduciaries: a legal construct of the patient-physician relationship Fidelity is the most...
This Article critically examines calls by scholars, legislators, and regulators advocating the impos...
Heated debate surrounds the question whether the relationship between physician-researcher and patie...
This essay explores some counterintuitive propositions to see what they may add to our understanding...
The goals of medicine as a profession dedicated to healing and caring of the sick in a dignified man...
A traditional ethic of medicine asserts that physicians have special obligations to individual patie...
Medical responsibility has developed rapidly due to scientific progress and modern medical discoveri...
The medical profession has, in the past, been accorded an unparalleled level of deference. It was pe...
Managed care employs two business tools of managed practice that raise important ethical issues: pay...
This Article examines the three major areas of common law that govern the patient-physician relation...
Guiding principles for the development of legislation regulating the doctor-patient relationship and...
Abstract: The emergence rights and obligations as a result of legal relationship between doctors an...
Medical practitioners are regarded as one of the noble professions in society. Muslim medical practi...
the Contract Model H ow VALUES AFFECT the char-acter of professional relationships with clients has ...
The Doctor-Patient Relationship (DPR) is a complex concept in the medical sociology in which patient...