An Historical View of Health Care Teams

摘要: It should be apparent to anyone who thinks about the issue even for a moment that health care today is no simple matter involving single clinicians and individual patients. Care provided more often by multiple personnel in complex institutions utilizing several layers of support, consultation, referral. Yet bioethical discourse still seems focused largely on increasingly Active one-on-one ideal cases somewhat stale concern patient provider “rights”. If discussion remain vital, it must shift its focus away from relationships complex, interactive contemporary realities incompletely explored philosophical problems “authority” “responsibility” closely related them. That one major goal this volume, reason directing attention teams teamwork modern medicine becomes important. Teams, or accurately, talk teams, has been dominant at least thirty years. This phenomenon merits both careful historical exploration serious attention.