Professionalism and Medicine's Social Contract with Society, Apr 04 ... Virtual Mentor - 0 views
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anonymous on 03 Jun 13A social contract does exist between medicine and society. Because society has chosen to use the concept of the profession as a means of organizing the services of the healer, professionalism has come to serve as the basis of this social contract. What is expected of the physician as healer is largely determined by what it means to be a professional in contemporary society.