The Physician as Captain of the Ship

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: King, Nancy M. P. (Editor), Churchill, Larry R. (Editor), Cross, Alan W. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1988.
• Series: Philosophy and Medicine ; 29
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Public health.; Medical ethics.; Philosophy of Medicine.; Public Health.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.

"The fixed person for fixed duties, who in older societies was such a godsend, in the future ill be a public danger." Twenty years ago, a single legal metaphor accurately captured the role that American society accorded to physicians. The physician was "c- tain of the ship." Phys...

Table of Contents:

• The Captain’s Authority: Sources and Scope
• The Physician and Authority: A Historical Appraisal
• Narrow Passageways: Nurses and Physicians in Conflict and Concert Since 1875
• Legal Intrusions on Physician Independence
• The Authority of the Captain: Reflections on a Nautical Theme
• Sharing the Captaincy
• Team Medicine in The NICU: Ship or Flotilla of Lifeboats?
• “Ship? What Ship? I Thought I was Going to the Doctor!”: Patient-Centered Perspectives on the Health Care Team
• Who Chartered This Ship?
• Technology and Financing: Changing the Course
• The Physician And Technological Change
• Marketing Health Care: Ethical Challenge to Physicians
• Social Goals and Doctors’ Roles: Commentary on the Essays of Robert M. Cook-Deegan and Stuart F. Spicker
• Captains, Committees, and Communities
• Unshared and Shared Decision Making: Reflections on Helplessness and Healing
• Ethics Committees: Talking the Captain Through Troubled Waters.