Over half a century ago, a Canadian judge defined a profession in a way that resonates still
today, not only for lawyers and doctors, but for the current wide variety of professions and …

Background One would have to have been living on Mars to be unaware that the medical
profession in the UK, and indeed worldwide, is suffering from a crisis of confidence. At first …

Even though, generally the doctors are held in high esteem by the public, this perception is
taking a big blow and the faith of the public is slowly diminishing, to be replaced by distrust …

It is deceptively easy to make a comparison between medical ethics and the ethics of the
legal profession. It is easy, because the members of either profession share similar …

In her paper 'Why Not Common Morality?', Rosamond Rhodes argues (1) that medical ethics
cannot and should not be derived from common morality and (2) that medical ethics should …

I am grateful to the Academy for inviting me to deliver the inaugural Academy of Medicine
Professional Affairs Lecture. It has only been a short time since I had the great honour to …

The OED defines a profession as 'a vocation or calling especially one that involves some
branch of advanced learning or science (the Medical Profession)'. Other distinguishing …

What do the terms “profession, professional, professionalism” mean in 2002? One dictionary
defines profession as “a calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long and …

The medical profession has been remarkably successful in the past fifty years. In achieving
this success, it has had to reach compromises with many of its fundamental principles …

Much is being written these days about the deprofessionalization of medicine. 1 This term
generally connotes deep concern about the loss of that special dedication to competence …