Challenges to the New Physician: Commencement Address, Louisiana State University Medical School, Shreveport, Louisiana

Challenges to the New Physician: Commencement Address, Louisiana State University Medical School, Shreveport, Louisiana

Contributor(s):
Koop, Charles Everett, 1916-2013
Publication:
Produced: 29 May 1982
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Physician-Patient Relations
Ethics
Health Services Needs and Demand
Disabled Persons
Aged
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Genre(s):
Archival Materials
Speeches
Abstract:
In this example of the many commencement addresses he delivered during his two terms as U.S. Surgeon General, Koop reminded his audience of the ethical commitments of physicians, including forging a supportive relationship with patients and their parents based on informed consent; ministering to patients in a health care system driven by scientific and technological advances that created distance between physicians and patients; helping parents cope with the financial burden imposed on families by costly operations and long-term care for children with birth defects; and ensuring quality of care in a time when the role of government in regulating health care and medicine was diminishing.
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Extent:
18 pages
NLM Unique ID:
101584930X10 (See in Profiles in Science)
Profiles in Science ID:
QQBBBM
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584930X10
Archival Collection:
The C. Everett Koop Papers (Profiles in Science)