Distribution AgreementDistribution Agreement • May 5th, 2020
Contract Type FiledMay 5th, 2020This paper will consider the relationship of medical practice, morality, and the state. At the heart of medical professionalism lies a claim that medicine is a moral matter concerned with what is right and what is wrong and a social contract exists between the doctor and the patient. Moral medicine must always be about healing and healing will never be a partner to killing. An examination of medicine and killing will require an understanding of the underpinnings and definition of morality. Moral matters will be understood to be fundamental truths, distinct from notions that ebb and flow. Medical practice is a lawfully regulated activity contained within a complex relationship between state interests and the interests of the medical profession. Physicians have a different social contract with the state and this relationship is a troubled alliance. Here, the state seeks to engage in an exchange of physician self-regulation with filial state loyalty. Within this model, independent physici