Abstract
The luckiest general practitioners work in an ideal environment with a perfect patient population, their clinical intuitions are always correct, theyjace difficulties with total equanimity, and they get on with all their patients. In the real world one needs a lot of luck for things to go right. This paper applies the philosophical concept of 'moral luck' to the world of general practice.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 960-962 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | British Journal of General Practice |
Volume | 53 |
Issue number | 497 |
State | Published - Dec 2003 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Ethics
- Intuition
- Luck
- Physician-patient relations