TY - JOUR T1 - George Eliot’s <em>Middlemarch</em>: a contribution to medical professionalism JF - Medical Humanities JO - J Med Humanit SP - 43 LP - 46 DO - 10.1136/jmh.2008.001321 VL - 35 IS - 1 AU - A Rosin Y1 - 2009/06/01 UR - http://mh.bmj.com/content/35/1/43.abstract N2 - 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. ER -