Physicians, Friendship, and Moral Strangers: An Examination of a Relationship
It is often said that because physicians and other healthcare professionals frequently play a critical role in determining the fate of their patients, they ought if at all possible to be their patient's friend. The relationship of necessity is intimate: physicians have knowledge of their patien...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1994
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Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 1994, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 52-59 |
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| Summary: | It is often said that because physicians and other healthcare professionals frequently play a critical role in determining the fate of their patients, they ought if at all possible to be their patient's friend. The relationship of necessity is intimate: physicians have knowledge of their patients' histories and of their bodies which under other circumstances would be reserved to the most intimate of friends, and physicians and patients meet under more or less critical (or at least anxiety-producing) situations. In this paper, I briefly examine the role of the physician as “friend,” an Issue to be much more extensively explored In a book In preparation. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-2147 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0963180100004710 |