Distribution of Percentage of Physician Responses to Professional Values Items
| Item | Strongly Agree | Agree | Neutral | Disagree | Strongly Disagree |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Note: Percentages may not add to 100% because of rounding. | |||||
| Sense of responsibility to individual patients | |||||
| The physician’s main responsibility is to each individual patient rather than to society | 28 | 42 | 13 | 13 | 4 |
| Egalitarian beliefs about distributive justice | |||||
| It is the responsibility of society to provide everyone with the best available health care | 18 | 35 | 13 | 25 | 9 |
| Society should allow patients who are willing to pay more to purchase more expensive treatments | 25 | 38 | 20 | 8 | 8 |
| It is unfair, in principle, for some people to have different health care than others for the same problems | 18 | 29 | 20 | 23 | 9 |