TY - JOUR T1 - Virtues and values in medicine revisited: individual and global health JF - Clinical Medicine JO - Clin Med SP - 495 LP - 499 DO - 10.7861/clinmedicine.14-5-495 VL - 14 IS - 5 AU - Solomon Benatar AU - Ross Upshur Y1 - 2014/10/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/14/5/495.abstract N2 - In response to the call from an international panel for ‘much needed rethinking’ about the goals and purposes of the education of healthcare professionals, we suggest that there must be an explicit account of the virtues and values that will inform healthcare practice in the 21st century. We propose that a renewed emphasis is needed on reviving the well-honed clinical skills and humanistic attributes in medicine as crucial for optimum affordable (and sustainable) care of individual patients. Analogous virtues should be linked to the quest for improving the health of whole populations, nationally and globally. ER -