Durfee D A
Prime Vision Health Group, Raleigh, NC 27601, USA.
Arch Ophthalmol. 1997 Sep;115(9):1194-5. doi: 10.1001/archopht.1997.01100160364018.
Medicine is, at its center, a moral enterprise grounded in a covenant of trust. This covenant obliges physicians to be competent and to use their competence in the patient's best interests. Physicians, therefore, are both intellectually and morally obliged to act as advocates for the sick wherever their welfare is threatened and for their health at all times.
医学本质上是一项基于信任契约的道德事业。这一契约要求医生具备专业能力,并将其能力用于患者的最大利益。因此,无论患者的福祉在何处受到威胁,医生在智力和道德上都有义务始终为患者的健康代言。