Medicine's crises

pp. 1-28

in: James A. Marcum, The virtuous physician, Berlin, Springer, 2012

Abstrakt

In this chapter, I examine the quality-of-care and professionalism crises and conventional attempts, especially in terms of evidence-based and patient-centered medicine, to resolve them. In contrast to these attempts, I introduce the notion of virtuous physician and briefly explore its potential for addressing these crises.