Sentence examples for authority of doctors from inspiring English sources
That was the era when the authority of doctors and dentists was never questioned.
What would we do with two men who held the moral authority of doctors?
The Bush campaign has characterized the Gore proposal as a "one-size-fits-all plan" that would interfere with the authority of doctors, presumably by restricting the list of drugs covered by insurance.
This gave Shaw an opportunity to use his dialectical brilliance to undermine the presumed authority of doctors over matters of life and death – an authority that he aggressively attacked in his preface to The Doctor's Dilemma and agreeably ridiculed in the play itself.
The Bill is intended to allow patients who have less than six months to live to end their lives with a lethal dose of drugs prescribed on the authority of two doctors if they have a "clear and settled intention" to die.
The authority of 'medical' doctors in defining and treating disease is challenged by other workforce disciplines 'allied' to medicine performing tasks for patients (nursing, caring), or who reject 'medicalisation' [ 15] of human experience.
The asymmetry between doctor and patient is thought to have deep and even possibly justified roots in the clinical authority of the doctor [ 45].
This time his highly-clipped 1950s BBC voice takes on the authority of a doctor.
People were shocked by the nurses' readiness to trust the authority of the doctor, but other, similar experiments have shown that most of us are all too ready to accept what we're told, particularly if there's a suggestion that the advice came from an expert.
The healthcare systems in these countries are evolving from a doctor patient relationship based on paternalism and the authority of the doctor to a model based on the ethical principle of patients' autonomy, where patients are transforming into customers, have more and better information, and want to take a more active role in making decisions that affect them [ 1].
