With luck, good doctors make a difference

Michael A. Weingarten

With luck, good doctors make a difference

Michael A. Weingarten

Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer
Clalit Health Services

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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
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

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With luck, good doctors make a difference

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