Physician's view of what society expects of physicians and what physicians expect from society. Society demands accessible, quality care. Physicians want balanced lives.

The Catholic Church demonstrates a preferential option for the poor not only by providing charity but also by demanding justice for the poor.

Counseling patients about medical finances is a preventive medicine duty, much as weight-loss counseling is.

The clinician/healer must both address the disease and seek to know how the medical condition is being experienced by the patient—what impact it has on his or her life and spirit.

The healer’s professional role and socioeconomic status from ancient to modern times.

Medicine, a high-energy consumer and generator of much waste—some of it toxic—must scale back the health care enterprise in the interest of preserving a livable environment.

Physicians make patients aware of those interventions that they (the patients) may then refuse. In short, informed consent is less about patient decisions than it is about restraining physicians.

Advances in CEA methodology might integrate equity at the cost of transparency.

Given organ scarcity, transplantation programs state that patient promises of compliance cannot be taken at face value, excluding candidates who are deemed untrustworthy.

Since the 1970s, various factors have generated a shift in medical culture from the prioritization of individual autonomy to relational autonomy