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Download or read book Healing as Vocation written by Kayhan Parsi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays provides educators in medicine and the health sciences an illuminating and challenging introduction to professionalism. The book takes a practical approach toward this topic, looking at what professionalism means, for the individual physician's relationship to his or her patients, to the medical profession as a whole, and to society at large. Written by leading scholars and thinkers in the area of professionalism in medicine, contributors provide a well-rounded analysis of this important topic. Although the intended audience is primarily physicians, medical students and residents, the book is a suitable primer for pre-professional health care students as well.