The Physician as Captain of the Ship

"The fixed person for fixed duties, who in older societies was such a godsend, in the future ill be a public danger." Twenty years ago, a single legal metaphor accurately captured the role that American society accorded to physicians. The physician was "c- tain of the ship." Phys...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: King, Nancy M. P. (Editor), Churchill, Larry R. (Editor), Cross, Alan W. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1988.
Series:Philosophy and Medicine ; 29
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