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. 2023 Mar 7;4(2):e12918.
doi: 10.1002/emp2.12918. eCollection 2023 Apr.

Emergency physician professionalism versus wellness: A conceptual model

Jay M Brenner  1 , Chadd Kraus  2 , Rebecca R Goett  3 , Monisha Dilip  4 , Elizabeth P Clayborne  5 , Nick Kluesner  6
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Emergency physician professionalism versus wellness: A conceptual model

Jay M Brenner et al. J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open. .

Abstract

Striking the balance between professional duties, obligations, and responsibility with protecting one's wellness as a physician and as an individual have been brought into sharper focus during COVID-19. The objective of this paper is to describe ethical principles in the balance between emergency physician wellness and professional responsibility to patients and the public. We propose a schematic that helps us as emergency physicians visualize continuously striving to be both well and professional.

Keywords: ethics; professionalism; wellness.

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FIGURE 1
A conceptual model of the intersection of wellness and professionalism. Emergency physicians may experience a range of wellness to unwellness and exhibit a spectrum of professionalism to unprofessionalism as depicted here in 4 quadrants (I–IV) of well and professional (I), well and unprofessional (II), unwell and unprofessional (III), and unwell and professional (IV).
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