Medical Profession
Essays

Medical professionals and healthcare practitioners have practiced and committed their profession to one ultimate goal: to ensure that patients' health state would improve from worse to better.

This study examines the concept of medical dominance and attempts to answer the question of whether medical dominance over other medical occupations and professions still exists. This study includes a history of the development of medical dominance and examines medical dominance in terms of contemporary medicine. Findings in this study is that medical dominance decreases as the new occupations in medical and health care increase.

¶ … intended public audience for this opinion piece includes stakeholders in the healthcare industry, including educators, researchers, nurses, physicians, and hospital administrators.