DOI: 10.1001/jama.2026.17994 ISSN: 0098-7484

Health Care’s Identity Crisis—Is Medicine Still a Profession?

Adam P. Sawatsky, Andrea N. Leep Hunderfund

This Perspective discusses the misalignment physicians face between their professionalism-based values and the conditions of practice that are influenced by pressures from market, managerial, and platform logics, and offers suggestions to align practice conditions and professional identity.