Medical Professionalism in a Commercialized Health Care Market

Relman argues that knowing what a medical profession is and what role it plays in modern society are required to understand today's crisis in medical professionalism. He explains that a major reason for the decline of medical professional values is the growing commercialization of the US health care system. With the growing commercialization of the US health care system, he suggests that physicians should work toward major reforms that will restore the health care system to its proper role as a social service that society provides to all.