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- Title: What Is Wrong with the Physician Charter on Professionalism (Essays)
- Author : The Hastings Center Report
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Life Sciences,Books,Science & Nature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 161 KB
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In 2002, the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation collaborated with the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine Foundation and the European Federation of Internal Medicine to write a document titled "Medical Professionalism in the New Millennium: A Physician Charter." (1) The charter set outs three main principles, which require that physicians be guided by (in order): 1) patient welfare; 2) patient autonomy; and 3) social justice. (1) The principles are very similar to those of the Belmont Report, the 1979 report by the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. (2) The three ethical principles of the Belmont Report, in lexical order, are: 1) respect for persons; 2) beneficence; and 3) justice. There are two important differences between the three principles in the Belmont Report and those in the Physician Charter on Professionalism. One is the change from respect for persons to respect for autonomy. The second is the lexical ordering of the principles. I believe that the changes are more substantive than might appear on first blush and reflect systemic problems in modern medicine and in the new charter on professionalism. I will argue that it is incumbent on medicine to reestablish its professional responsibilities by reembracing the notion of respect for persons.
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