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Credentialing Character: A Virtue Ethics Approach to Professionalizing Healthcare Ethics Consultation Services.
HEC Forum
September 2024
Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
In the process of professionalization, the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) has emphasized process and knowledge as core competencies for clinical ethics consultants; however, the credentialing program launched in 2018 fails to address both pillars. The inadequacy of this program recalls earlier critiques of the professionalization effort made by Giles R. Scofield and H.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF"A gentle and humane temper": humility in medicine.
Perspect Biol Med
August 2011
Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, Health Sciences Center, StonyBrook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8335, USA.
Humility is the medical virtue most difficult to understand and practice. This is especially true in contemporary medicine, which has developed a culture more characterized by arrogance and entitlement than by self-effacement and moderation. In such a culture, humility suggests weakness, indecisiveness, or even deception, as in false modesty.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFViewpoint: today's professionalism: engaging the mind but not the heart.
Acad Med
October 2005
Division of Medicine in Society, Department of Preventive Medicine, HSC L3-086, Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-8036, USA.
Professionalism is au courant in medicine today, but the movement to teach and evaluate professionalism presents a conundrum to medical educators. Its intent is laudable: to produce humanistic and virtuous physicians who will be better able to cope with and overcome the dehumanizing features of the health care system in the United States. However, its impact on medical education is likely to be small and misleading because current professionalism curricula focus on lists of rules and behaviors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeglected ethical dimensions of the professional liability crisis.
Am J Obstet Gynecol
May 2004
The New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA.
In response to the professional liability crisis, self-interest can become dominant and displace fiduciary professionalism from its central place in the moral lives of physicians and physician leaders. We provide preventive ethics tools to address this neglected ethical dimension of the professional liability crisis. We develop these tools on the basis of the concept of the physician as fiduciary of the patient, which was introduced in the English-language literature of medical ethics by Dr John Gregory (1714-1773).
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