RT Article
T1 Like marriage, without the romance
JF Journal of medical ethics
VO 26
IS 3
SP 194
OP 197
A1 Portmann, John
LA English
YR 2000
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1816119962
AB Physicians and philosophers have contributed to the field of medical ethics several different paradigms for the physician-patient relationship. Here I suggest another: marriage. Patients usually enter into relationships as we enter marriage: we allow our high hopes to obscure the possibility of deep disappointment. The argument of the essay encourages renewed focus on the contractual element of physician-patient relationships.
DO 10.1136/jme.26.3.194