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In order to understand what it means to be a physician, we must, according to Dr. Edmund Pellegrino, analyze four words that capture the essence of the medical enterprise: profession, patient, compassion, and consent. The resultant model provides a rational and secular basis upon which the Jewish or Christian physician can then build an understanding of medicine in its peculiarly religious form. This religious form is likewise characterized by four words: vocation, neighbor, love, and covenant. An analysis of these words provides a model of and for the religious physician.
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Sevensky, R.L. The religious physician. J Relig Health 21, 254–263 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02274185
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02274185