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Social Contract

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As health care has become of great importance to both individual citizens and to society, it has become more important to understand medicine's relationship to the society it serves in order to have a basis for meaningful dialogue. During the past decade, individuals in the medical, legal, social sciences, and health policy fields have suggested that professionalism serves as the basis of medicine's relationship with society, and many have termed this relationship a social contract the social contract, an idea derived from political science that recently describe as the relationship between the medical profession and the society. when both medicine and society were relatively similar, it functioned reasonably well. Medicine knew the expectation on what society of both individual physicians and of the profession as a whole, and to commitment of physicians is needful to sustain the contract. However, the essential and the basic subject to the social contract is professionalism.

I interviewed four people with a questionnaire about medicine and society, the first question about if they see medicine is caring and compassionate and I got two answers. The two who agree said that now medicine is looking after the patient and make him from his priority. On the other hand who disagree comment that most …show more content…

One of the answers was agreed. She said that medical professionals are like any other human, and humans make mistakes but she thinks that health care provider is developing and making a protocol to avoid incoming mistakes, and patient should be aware of that. The three who disagree said that still most of the health care team not learning from their colleagues and fall into the same mistake again. I agree with the tree because by observing I see that most individuals work alone and not giving attention to their colleagues mistakes since it does not affect

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