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  1. In contemporary times, a third potentially dominant pathway of medical ethics known as organizational ethics has emerged to address ethical issues associated with the business and managerial aspects of healthcare organizations. This approach recognizes that the quality of care experienced by patients depends in part on the values of the healthcare organization with which they and their physicians and other heath care providers interact [7].

  2. Medicine is the only profession that still honors an oath [26].

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MacKenzie, C.R. Professionalism and Medicine. HSS Jrnl 3, 222–227 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11420-007-9054-3

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