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In virtually everything that is written, said, or thought about the patientphysician relationship the ideal of a close, long-term, concerned, all-knowing commitment is lurking. It is recognized that not all relationships between health professionals and lay people live up to that ideal. In fact, all too often physicians are condemned for being distant, aloof, unconcerned about the life the patient leads in all its richness of beliefs, values, lifestyle, social involvements, and psychological problems. The ‘physician as friend’, however, has been the ideal, and much of our medical ethical reflection, both formal and folk reflection, has been oriented toward that ideal.
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Veatch, R.M. (1983). The Physician as Stranger: The Ethics of the Anonymous Patient-Physician Relationship. In: Shelp, E.E. (eds) The Clinical Encounter. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7148-6_13
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