Abstract
In the article “The crisis in the essential healthcare system and medical professionalism,” the author suggests that discussions about how to solve the crisis in the South-Korean essential healthcare system should be grounded in medical professionalism, which is itself based on the individual doctor-patient relationship. The author claims that restoring medical professionalism will mitigate the negative consequences of the current crisis by preventing doctors from prescribing unnecessary treatments and therefore restraining medical consumerism and the rapid expansion of the private health insurance system. This commentary raises questions about how medical professionalism, of which the primary focus lies in the individual doctor-patient relationship, could be applied in the macro-level. It is argued that in order to address macro-level healthcare issues, the conventional concept of medical professionalism needs to be revised and strengthened.
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