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Resuscitating Professionalism: Self-Regulation In The Medical Marketplace, Gail B. Agrawal Apr 2001

Resuscitating Professionalism: Self-Regulation In The Medical Marketplace, Gail B. Agrawal

Missouri Law Review

This Article contends that market failures and the inherent limitation of an economic model to regulate health care delivery warrant a reexamination of physician self-regulation as a means to address the necessity of and concerns about health care spending controls. Although physicians, like all market participants, will respond to economic incentives, the standards for professional conduct adopted through self-regulatory mechanisms are an additional, important, and overlooked determinant of physician conduct. They can be used to achieve results that evade both market forces and command-and-control legislation. These standard, however, have not kept up-to-date with the new market demands on physicians. If …


Professionalism Lost: Where Have You Gone Atticus Finch? Our Nation Turns Its Lonely Eyes To You..., Beau James Brock Mar 2001

Professionalism Lost: Where Have You Gone Atticus Finch? Our Nation Turns Its Lonely Eyes To You..., Beau James Brock

Beau James Brock

Attorney are only, as a group, what the public preceives us to be. Whether that be as knights in shining armor or as something far less noble.


Pre-Paid And Group Legal Services: Thirty Years After The Storm, Judith L. Maute Jan 2001

Pre-Paid And Group Legal Services: Thirty Years After The Storm, Judith L. Maute

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Code Of One's Own, Joseph P. Tomain Jan 2001

A Code Of One's Own, Joseph P. Tomain

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

A Code of One's Own is an essay exploring the idea that we can learn about professionalism by reflecting on the humanities. The paper is modeled on Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own which is a series of lectures in six chapters. The essay uses those chapters to develop the idea that lawyers, through self-reflection and observation, can develop a professional code of their own. The paper was developed through co-teaching a course entitled, Law in Literature and Philosophy as well as by attending the Aspen Institute and the Glenmoor Institute of Justice for the Legal Profession, which are …


How About A Firm Where People Actually Want To Work: A "Professional" Law Firm For The Twenty-First Century, James Regan Jan 2001

How About A Firm Where People Actually Want To Work: A "Professional" Law Firm For The Twenty-First Century, James Regan

Fordham Law Review

I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself, not for others--what no other man can ever know. -Joseph Conrad


Report Of The Ethics And Professionalism Working Group, Nanette Schrandt Jan 2001

Report Of The Ethics And Professionalism Working Group, Nanette Schrandt

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.