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Transformation of Medical Ethics Through Time (Part II): Medical Ethics and Organized Medicine

The physician should be contemptuous of money, interested in his work,self-controlled, and just. Once he is possessed of these basic virtues,he will have all others at his command as well.Galen Can the Medical Profession Survive Flexible Ethics?* The medical writers of antiquity wrote and discussed ethics merely as individuals trying to find out the best […]

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Book Review of Medical Warrior: Fighting Corporate Socialized Medicine. Reviewed by Otto Scott

Very few American adults now recall the high status once enjoyed by physicians in this land. They did not, of course, accomplish this on their own: their forbears in Europe spent generations at the task. The climb was not easy, for the aristocracy had all the weapons and the power and the prestige and the

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Managed Care — Corporate Socialized Medicine

No wonder physicians are demoralized, leaving the profession early, and joining labor unions. They are being enslaved by managed care masters and HMOs, while the concept of managed competition is destroying the medical profession. Yet, it’s the American public, all of us as ultimate patients, who have the most to lose. The concept of managed

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Proud to Be American — Naturalized Citizen Earns Medal from DAR

Dr. Miguel Faria is very proud of his adopted the United States of America. He’s equally as proud to have received the Americanism medal and certificate from the Daughters of the American Revolution last month. Faria, a native of Cuba, moved to Macon in 1983 after completing his training in neurosurgery at Emory University Hospital

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Transformation of Medical Ethics Through Time (Part I): Medical Ethics and Statist Controls

In matters of style, swim with the current;in matters of principle, stand firm like a rock.Thomas Jefferson The Corporate Practice of Medicine One hears repeatedly that managed care penetration in health care delivery continues unabated; that it continues to interpose itself in the medical decision-making process erstwhile reserved to the patient and his physician; and

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On the Moral Virtues and Evolving Professional Ethics: A Message to Physicians by Miguel A. Faria, Jr., MD

The Cardinal Virtues It has been written by the great thinkers of the Western intellectual tradition that the chief moral virtues — the four cardinal virtues — are courage (or fortitude), temperance, justice, and prudence. According to the modern philosopher Mortimer J . Adler, the four cardinal virtues are the virtues which constitute the moral

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