Although modern medicine enjoys unprecedented success in
providing excellent technical care, many patients are dissatisfied
with the poor quality of care or the unprofessional manner in which
physicians sometimes deliver it.Recently, this patient
dissatisfaction has led to quality-of-care and professionalism
crises in medicine.
Inthis book, the author proposes a notion of virtuous physician
to address these crises.He discusses the nature of the two crises
and efforts by the medical profession to resolve them and then he
briefly introduces the notion of virtuous physician and outlines
its basic features.Further, virtue theory is discussed, along with
virtue ethics and virtue epistemology, and specific virtues,
especially as they relate to medicine.
The author also explores the ontological priority of caring as
the metaphysical virtue for grounding the notion of virtuous
physician, and two essential ontic virtues-care and competence.In
addition to this, he examines the transformation of competence into
prudent wisdom and care into personal radical love to forge the
compound virtue of prudent love, which is sufficient for defining
the virtuous physician.Lastly, two clinical case stories are
reconstructed which illustrate the various virtues associated with
medical practice, and it is discussed howthe notion of virtuous
physician addresses the quality-of-care and professionalism
crises.
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