Perspective: Medical Professionalism and Medical Education Should Not Involve Commitments to Political Advocacy
Abstract
It is increasingly suggested that political advocacy is a core professional responsibility for physicians. The author argues that this is an error. Advocacy on behalf of societal goals, even those goals as unexceptionable as the betterment of human health, is inevitably political. Claims that political advocacy are a professional responsibility are mistaken, the author argues, because (1) civic virtues are outside the professional realm, (2)...
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Title
Perspective: Medical Professionalism and Medical Education Should Not Involve Commitments to Political Advocacy
Published Date
Mar 1, 2011
Journal
Volume
86
Issue
3
Pages
378 - 383
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