Professionalism

Are our professional societies selling us out?

A glaring example is the “new professionalism” as pushed forward by the ABIM foundation and the ACP – and mindlessly or perhaps innocently accepted by many other professional organizations – which eviscerates the duty of the physician to the patient replacing it with some type of impossible balancing act where in physicians are cajoled into being instead stewards of the finite medical resources that seem to be owned by everyone and no one and advancing the cause of a nebulous social justice.