Racing Pulses: Gender, Professionalism and Health Care in Medical Romance Fiction

Passionate Virtue: Conceptions of Medical Professionalism in Popular Romance Fiction.

Medical romance fiction is a subgenre of popular romance fiction that features medical professionals in their work environment. This essay explores the way professionalism is portrayed in popular medical romance fiction written during the early twenty-first century, a period of significant disruption in both the public image and self-understanding of organized medicine. I analyze a selection of...

Medical professionalism in a commercialized health care market.

MEDICAL PROFESSIONALISM IN THE UNITED STATES is facing a crisis, just as serious as the crisis facing the health care system, and the 2 crises are interrelated. To understand today’s crisis in medical professionalism requires knowing what a profession is and what role it plays in modern society. Freidson considered a profession to be 1 of 3 options modern society has for controlling and organiz...

Health informatics professionalism in primary care.

Health Informatics has been defined as ‘the knowledge, skills and tools which enable information to be collected, managed, used and shared to support the delivery of health care and promote health’. However, the profession of ‘health informatician’ is a new, diverse and as yet unorganised entity. Does it have any relevance in primary care? This broad church includes many people working in healt...

Professionalism in medical informatics.

Basson's private ECG tutoring sets pulses racing.

Professionally disgraced apart heid-era architect of chemi cal and biological ‘dirty tricks’ weaponry Dr Wouter Basson continued to tutor Stellenbosch University medical students at a private medical hospital for 11 months after being convicted of unethical conduct. The maverick clinician’s involvement with young medical minds has drawn fire from top ethicists and the official campus student me...