Thesis, Antithesis, and Fallacious Synthesis: The Troublesome Dialectic of Professional Behavior and Its Regulation.

The article offers information on the poor quality care of patient, patient dissatisfaction, and patient harms in the hospitals. It mentions the proposed Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) legislation was misguided as a means of improving patient safety as distinct from consumers' rights; and also mentions the need for a sensitive and specific regulatory approach to protect patients' interests in response to professionalism lapses remains unsatisfied.