During the transformation of medical cosmologies, as the voice of patients became less important, doctors or medical investigators began to ignore moral ethics or social responsibilities. In the era of laboratory medicine, doctors and medical investigators treat disease based on the particular cell instead of looking at the patient's body system (Jewson, 2009). They focus more on the cell linked to the disease and hope they can discover new things that could help them attract sponsorships. During the implication of hospital medicine, medical investigators would disclose their findings to attract the attention of sponsors, unlike the Bedside Medicine era, when findings were confidential (Jewson, 2009). This action is considered unethical towards patients. Therefore, in order to prevent unethical behavior among doctors, solutions are adopted in modern times. For example, the Graduate Australian Medical School Admission Test (GAMSAT) contains a section that tests on reasoning in the humanities and social sciences (GAMSAT, 2014). This is to emphasize thinking, logical and plausible reasoning and therefore could show a person's suitability to be a doctor. The Patients' Rights Act was established to ensure that patients also’
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