PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - A Rosin
TI  - George Eliot’s <em>Middlemarch</em>: a contribution to medical professionalism
AID  - 10.1136/jmh.2008.001321
DP  - 2009 Jun 01
TA  - Medical Humanities
PG  - 43--46
VI  - 35
IP  - 1
4099  - http://mh.bmj.com/content/35/1/43.short
4100  - http://mh.bmj.com/content/35/1/43.full
SO  - J Med Humanit2009 Jun 01; 35
AB  - The qualities of medical professionalism have been questioned in the last few years. George Eliot’s 19th century novel Middlemarch illustrates some of the truths that should underlie the physician-patient relationship, and depicts prophetically some of the developments that were to occur in reality in the medicine of the 20th and 21st century. Her insight into the problems facing a medical researcher and the fictional conflicts between vocation and marriage are real issues of medical professionalism even today.