We must act ethically and with with integrity. We cannot mistake ethics and integrity with compliance, making them synonymous with ass-covering. Ethics and integrity mean serving the whole, knowing the effects of our actions, and caring about those effects. The Responsive Practice embraces a vision of creating benefits that radiate into society. Start with the patient We must care about, not just for, patients.
Nothing is more complex than human empathy.
Whether through indifference or incompetence, breaking a commitment to a patient is wrong. Patients who are wronged will find detours around the practices that wrong them. We must increase direct communications with our patients. The Responsive Practice uses the interests of the patient as a common ground for improvement. Health care is not a commodity The health care financing system commoditizes medicine by reducing the physician-patient relationship to transactions.