You may choose to Agree or Disagree or simply simply say what you found interesting about your classmate’s ideas:“Professionalism, Profession and the Virtues of the Good Physician”, in this article, Pelligrino talks about the difference between professionalism and profession. He also emphasizes the importance this difference has and how we are gradually fading away from virtue-inspired healthcare. I agree with most of what he said. He explains that a profession is having possession of a body of special knowledge, practice within some type of ethical framework, fulfillment of societal need, and a social mandate which permits a significant non-compulsory latitude in setting standards for education and performance of its members (Pellegrino,378). Another term is learned profession, this term applies to people that want to satisfy some fundamental human need. Individuals labeled with this term fit the criteria of a sociological defined profession. And also have a special niche among a large number of occupations that now lay claim to a profession that lies more in dedication and wanting to heal rather than just self-interest. Pellegrino emphasizes the point of altruism being the main feature of medicine, ministry, law, and teaching that sets them apart. The profession is the act of promise, commitment, and dedication to an ideal. In the medical world, the act of profession happens in two ways: the first way is public profession-when an oath is taken by doctors and other medical professionals. The second way is declared. A daily encounter with patients. Committing yourself to your patient and using competencies in the best interest of your patients. Professionalism is defined as unquestioned loyalty to other members of the same occupation. This is more focused on one’s own self-interest and titles, credentials being more important. Pelligrino states that the Profession has a moral center that Professionalism does not quite focus on. The virtues that appear to be most relevant for the practice of medicine are benevolence, compassion, fidelity, and truthfulness. These virtues are most important because they all provide a type of trust between the physician and patient. What I also found interesting was the three approaches to virtue theories of ethics. The thick version completely reduces ethics to virtues. The thin version has no special claim that has one virtue among theories. The third one is called the complimentary version which states that virtue ethics is an essential element in any theory of moral life. Critics of virtue-based ethics accuse it of being without guide rules or duties. Pellegrino agrees that this in part is true but ignores the important part of a commitment to virtue on the conduct of the physician. The virtue-inspired physician does not care for self-interest or profit. When physicians come to difficult situations practical wisdom helps the moral agent to resolve conflicts among virtues. I found the following articles to be interesting because Pellegrino states that we are in conflict due to fewer physicians being virtue-inspired and more engaged with self-interest. I believe that a lot more medical professionals are driven by entitlement and money rather than actually caring for their patients. I recently read the 1619 project for my other class and the article I chose to read was about the myths of different physiological features black people have from white people. I thought this was very important to bring up for the reason that even in the 1800s doctors were doing excruciating and inhumane experiments on black people to prove they were different and inferior. Racism is still seen in the medical field as there is a higher death rate amongst black and Latino women when giving birth than there are white women. The very oath that a physician takes to do no harm against their patient no matter the circumstance is broken and has been broken for a long time. Pellegrino talks about what a physician should and should not be. I feel as though many people that even think about pursuing a career in the medical field should read these three articles to understand what is being said and how to apply it correctly. Reading this and the 1619 project puts me in a confused state because I also want to pursue a career in the medical field but my intent is true to help others. Knowing that there is hypocrisy and injustice for patients that are of a certain race and gender scares me. Hopefully, more physicians and other professionals can be virtue-inspired in some way. The rate we are going in the medical field is frightening because all doctors and other scientists are to take an oath of trust and promise and these very doctors violate it by their self-interest and racism.