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Evaluating physicians' professionalism and humanism: the case for humanism "connoisseurs".

Physicians' professionalism and humanism have become central foci of the efforts of medical educators as the public, various accrediting and licensing agencies, and the profession itself have expressed concerns about the apparent erosion of physicians' competency in these aspects of the art, rather than the science, of medicine. Of the many obstacles to enhancing trainees' skills in these domai...

Humanism and the Physician

Humanism and the Physician is an elaborate articulation of the idea of humanism and the idea of medicine, and the intrinsic relevance each has for the other. The book is a collection of thematically related essays taken from speeches and articles written during the last sixteen years, though most are quite recent. The essays are organized into three parts, delineating the relevance of humanism ...

Humanism and the physician

or quotes are paraphrased, losing the colour of the original event. The press itself must take the blame for rather disappointing production: besides many typographical errors, the print is strangely difficult to read. However, Morris Vogel's book is, overall, very useful. He has successfully treated his topic as a social development, where patients and governors, local politicians and ethnic l...

Humanism and Science

T HE most common view of the relation between humanism and science is that the two elements are antithetic. In my view humanism and science are complementary. And indeed, I believe that in the last analysis each includes the other which is not to say they are identical. But this antithetic view has a long and I suppose distinguished history dating back to virtually the very beginnings of modern...