00833nam a2200109Ia 4500 Emery, H. Challenges facing the physician in the 21st century 2000 Notes that one dilemma facing the physician of the 21st century is the need to recognize his/her changing role and to integrate his/her traditional clinical skills with the social intervention (including spirituality) needed to achieve total patient care. Suggests that the issues of primary health care, poverty, pollution, health insurance ,the cost of health care, and alternative medicine, ethical and moral dilemmas, represent some of the major challenges. Indicates that the challenge to the doctor is that he/she must always adopt positions which are ethically, morally and legally sound. 11/8/00 JOY_D A 23041 23041 0 0 0 0 CRCM CRCM 2023-05-04 0 0000000017055 2023-05-04 00:00:00 2023-05-04 A