Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doubt the mothers of many such infants are simply and directly told by their doctors that the children they carried for nine months were stillborn. The doctor thus participates in mercy-killing. Alas, the merciful physician--possessor of the "God syndrome"--giver and taker of life...
Clearly the physician cannot have the upper-hand in decision making. We must view him as a craftsman with indispensible technical expertise, but we cannot allow him to assume the position...
...begun to question the basis for the distribution of medical authority and its concurrent responsibilities. Centuries ago the delegation of that responsibility to an individual whom we would be quick to condemn as a primitive medicine man stemmed from his possession of some sort of divine right. Today the physician's privilege to practice results from years of expensive classroom education and extensive clinical training. And yet, the modern physician's privilege--one that we would say is based upon more objective criteria than that of the early medicine man--must now be reexamined. For we must delineate where...
...CONTEMPORARY physician is not a divinely-endowed medicine man, and yet society has dictated that he have God-like attributes. Although he is actually a craftsman, many would deny him the human right to be fallible. He is not supra-human, but rather he is subject to the same fallibility as his human peers. The contemporary American physician enjoys an inflated aura of ultra-professionalism, one not so readily attainable by any other occupational group in our society. Indubitably this in itself has become a source of contention between the doctor and his patient, paternalism being the most definable...
...dichotomies and contradictions implicit in the practice of medicine are numerous. The nature of medicine is two-fold: the science and the art coexist. The doctor's relationship with his patient is of a dual character. As Plato suggests, the physician is a friend to his patient as both a technophile (friend of medicine) and an anthropophile (friend of man). We seek an answer to the contradicitions in the physician's oath: Is the doctor foresworn primarily to prolong life or to curtail suffering? Is he bound primarily to a legal code or his own conscience? Furthermore, the sacred...