The Open Psychiatry Journal
2013, 7 : 9-16Published online 2013 June 28. DOI: 10.2174/1874354401307010009
Publisher ID: TOPJ-7-9
Medical Professionalism in the U.S.: Under Vigorous Challenge by International medical graduate committee of gap
168 W. 86 St., Apt.6C, New
York, NY 10024, USA.
ABSTRACT
The values of American culture have changed and this has led since 1970 to a competition with traditional medical values. The social forces that have stirred a reconsideration of core medical values come from 1. economic, 2. institutional and 3. life style sources and is related to efforts by non-service providers to gain profits from medical services and the attempts by both governmental and non-governmental sources to control the cost of medical care.