Medical Professionalism in the U.S.: Under Vigorous Challenge byInternational medical graduate committee of gap

摘要

The values of American culture have changed and this has led since 1970 to a competition with traditionalmedical values. The social forces that have stirred a reconsideration of core medical values come from 1. economic, 2.institutional and 3. life style sources and is related to efforts by non-service providers to gain profits from medical servicesand the attempts by both governmental and non-governmental sources to control the cost of medical care.