What qualities make a good doctor?

摘要

Each year in December, young medical graduates in Australia are registered as medical practitioners and with eager anticipation, prepare to start their medical careers. As I look back, 41 years after my own graduation and registration, I ask myself: Which personal qualities combine to make someone a good doctor?Inhisbook, On Equilibrium: Six qualities of the new humanism,1 John Ralston Saul, the great Canadian thinker, novelist and essayist (and husband of the Canadian Governor General), identifies the following as key virtues that can be used to describe an effective person: common sense, ethics, imagination, intuition, memory and reason. I find this framework quite helpful and it is interesting to try and structure references for people on them. How well do these 6 qualities relate to what makes someone a good doctor?