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Throughout ancient, medieval, and modern medicine, the physician’s moral obligations and virtues have been conceived primarily through professional commitments to provide care, expressed as fundamental obligations of beneficence. The physician must maximize the patient’s medical benefits above all competing obligations. Practices of truthtelling, confidentiality, and all aspects of patient care are, from this perspective, governed by a beneficence model of primary responsibility.
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Beauchamp, T.L. (1995). Worthington Hooker on ethics in clinical medicine. In: Baker, R. (eds) The Codification of Medical Morality. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 49. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-27444-7_5
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