Abstract
Abstract
Recengy the problem of profession, professional, professionalism, and ethics in medicine
have been attracting much the public, the media, the professionals, and even also the medical
practitioners.This may be stimulated by several cases involving medical professionals exposed
by the press, originaiing from the decreasing comprehension on the above named terms' The
line differentiating profession from business is too becoming vague. Professionalism that should
contain also high ethical moral standards and humanitarian values beside the knowledge and
skill is decreasing in comprehension among the medical practitioner and other professionals in
general. A clear normative definition of each of those terms is needed. As lndonesian physicians,
we should refer and apply the basic principles stated in Pancasila, i.e' the philosophical moral
basis of the lndonesia foundation in providing medical and health service. Further our reflections
go on to whether the principles of Pancasila can replace the ethical principles of Bioethics, the
western concept. Accepting the western completely would likely mean accepting the cultural
imperialism, while replacing the western values or principles totally is unnecessary considering
that many of the western conform our local wisdom'
Keywords: Profession, professionalism, medical ethics, Pancasila, local wisdom'
transculturalism and value recipi"ocity'
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