BMJ 1994;309:1247-1248 (12 November)

Editorials

Medicine's core values

British doctors failed to notice that the world around them had changed utterly and so were unprepared for the "blitzkrieg from the right" that overwhelmed them at the end of the 1980s. This was the diagnosis from Sir Maurice Shock, former rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, when he opened last week's meeting of doctors' leaders to discuss the core values of medicine. This was the first "summit" meeting of the profession since 1961 and was prompted by falling morale and influence and a request from the chief medical officer for the profession to look beyond present circumstances to consider its future.1 It occurred the day after the General Medical Council discussed proposals to change its guidance to doctors from a list of what must not be done to a description of what is required of a good doctor (p 1251).

Doctors seemed to imagine, said Sir Maurice, that they were . . . [Full text of this article]


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