Medicine's Intrinsic Good (Podcast)
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چکیده
What is good medicine? Who counts as a good doctor? These are very large questions that cannot be fully addressed here. I want to focus on a basic aspect of these two questions and on the ethical idea of "the good." The term "good medicine," as I have just used it, is not intended to be contrasted with "bad medicine." Rather it is meant to bring to the fore that medicine is something good in itself, a worthwhile and honorable human activity, a "profession" with a specific object of activity, a human good, to which so many men and women devote their lives; an endeavor full of value and capable of fulfilling a person's life with interest, effort and achievement. Medicine is something noble and laudable; both a good and an excellence. This good of medicine is what medicine is about, what it aims at; that which makes medicine to be medicine rather than law, or politics. Let me call this good the medical good.
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