Patient Care and Professionalism

Abstract

[...]the topic is addressed too superficially to have significant meaning, relying on practical and redundant examples of what a professional "looks like" rather than naming, defining, and discussing the virtues and characteristics that comprise a profession and a professional. In an enlightening essay entitled "Professionalism: the Science of Care and the Art of Medicine," the author examines the neurophysiologic and scientific basis of the physician-patient relationship.