From the American Board of Family Medicine: THE SOCIAL CONTRACT PROFESSIONALISM AND ITS ASSESSMENT: THE STRATEGY OF THE ABFM GOING FORWARD

摘要

Society granted physicians status, respect, autonomy in practice, the privilege of self-regulation, and financial rewards on the expectation that physicians would be competent, altruistic, moral, and would address the health care needs of individual patients and society. This “arrangement” remains the essence of the social contract.