The Patient-Physician Relationship: Covenant or Contract?
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Patient-physician covenant.
Medicine is, at its center, a moral enterprise grounded in a covenant of trust. This covenant obliges physicians to be competent and to use their competence in the patient’s best interests. Physicians, therefore, are both intellectually and morally obliged to act as advocates for the sick wherever their welfare is threatened and for their health at all times. Today, this covenant of trust is si...
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عنوان ژورنال: Mayo Clinic Proceedings
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0025-6196
DOI: 10.4065/71.9.917