[Can we do without the doctor?]
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1Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche di Base, Neuroscienze ed Organi di Senso, Università di Bari.
Abstract:
Healthcare is important for maintaining social order as medical doctors set the standard for normality. The degree of patient satisfaction is central to the very economy of the functioning of the entire health system, as the outcome of the treatment also depends on the degree of involvement of the person and the enhancement of his individuality. Ensuring citizens, a level of health protection that meets certain requirements and quality standards is increasingly difficult to achieve due to an ever-decreasing number of resources in health systems with a universalistic and supportive vocation. Attention must be shifted from individual behaviors to the structural factors that determine them. Through this reformulation, speaking in terms of global health means speaking of ethics, of social responsibility extended to the various sectors of the health field at the center of which is the figure of the medical doctor.
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