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In the twenty-first century the medical profession is faced with the challenge to deliver patient-centered care, improve the quality of health care, and deal with the burdens of cost efficiency medicine. Professionalism in health care is an ideal based on social, ethical, scientific, and moral duties and suggestions. In this respect, professionalism, autonomy, and accountability are influenced by different points of interests, such as patient-practitioner relationship, practitioner-hospital interaction, and the practitioner-supplier rapport. Core values, competencies and principles should be reflected upon these influences and questioned towards the individual relations. The manuscript at hand is reflecting current ideas of professionalism in health care in the twenty-first century reviewing current problems focusing specifically on the profession of orthopedic surgeon.
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Andruszkow, H., Hildebrand, F., Pfeifer, R., Horst, K., Pape, HC. (2014). Professionalism in Health Care. In: Stahel, P., Mauffrey, C. (eds) Patient Safety in Surgery. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4369-7_10
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