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The epistemically virtuous clinician.

James A Marcum¹

¹Department of Philosophy, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97273, Waco, TX 76798, USA. James_Marcum@baylor.edu

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

|June 24, 2009

Summary

Modern medicine faces a quality-of-care crisis. This paper proposes the concept of an epistemically virtuous clinician, integrating intellectual virtues to enhance the patient-physician relationship and medical education.

Area of Science:

Medical Ethics
Philosophy of Medicine
Virtue Epistemology

Background:

Modern Western medicine is experiencing a quality-of-care crisis.
This crisis is eroding the crucial patient-physician relationship.
There is a need for conceptual frameworks to address these issues.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose a framework of the epistemically virtuous clinician.
To address the quality-of-care crisis in medicine.
To explore the role of intellectual virtues in clinical practice.

Main Methods:

Reconstruction of a clinical case study from existing literature.
Application of reliabilist virtue epistemology (perceptual and conceptual virtues).
Application of responsibilist virtue epistemology (curiosity, courage, honesty, humility).

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Main Results:

Demonstrated how specific intellectual virtues can be applied to a clinical case.
Explored the relevance of love of knowledge, theoretical, and practical wisdom in clinical settings.
Linked ethical and intellectual virtues to the concept of an epistemically virtuous clinician.

Conclusions:

The notion of an epistemically virtuous clinician offers a way to address the quality-of-care crisis.
Integrating intellectual virtues can improve the patient-physician relationship.
The concept has significant implications for medical education and training.