The Ethics of Efficiency in Hospital Medicine: Developing a New Paradigm for the Patient-Physician Relationship

Authors :: Elmer D. Abbo
Source :: AMA Journal of Ethics. 10:817-822
Publication Year :: 2008
Publisher :: American Medical Association (AMA), 2008.
Abstract: The rise in hospital-based medicine and the focused-practice area of hospitalists are altering the traditional paradigm of the patient-physician relationship to emphasize efficiency and justice in medical practice. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association.

Subjects :: medicine.medical_specialty
Health (social science)
business.industry
Health Policy
education
Medical practice
Bioethics
Hospital medicine
Issues, ethics and legal aspects
Nursing
Family medicine
medicine
Physician patient relationship
Justice (ethics)
business
Medical ethics

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