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International Journal for Quality in Health Care 14:349-351 (2002)
© 2002 International Society for Quality in Health Care

Editorial

Old values, new challenges: what is a professional to do?

Linda Emanuel, Richard Cruess, Sylvia Cruess and Joshua Hauser

Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

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Medical professionals are engaged in a particular set of roles and relationships in society. The obligations and boundaries of these relationships are set out in ancient and modern codes of ethics. To a degree, they speak with one voice, thereby affirming their authenticity [1]. After all, being derived from a deeply human response to existential realities of illness and death, there are only so many degrees of freedom in medical ethics. Medical professionals must preserve health, heal, care, and be trustworthy on an individual and collective level. Simple in its ethical declarations, achieving professionalism in our actions can test the limits of cognitive and moral strength. Today the challenges of change are tectonic in magnitude, electronic in speed, and arriving on several fronts simultaneously. To help draw out our collective strength, major medical groups have put out new versions of professional declarations such as the American Board of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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