TY - JOUR T1 - Why the Kantian ideal survives medical learning curves, and why it matters JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - 511 LP - 512 DO - 10.1136/jme.2005.014704 VL - 32 IS - 9 AU - B Brecher Y1 - 2006/09/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/32/9/511.abstract N2 - The “Kantian ideal” is often misunderstood as invoking individual autonomy rather than rational self legislation. Le Morvan and Stock’s otherwise insightful discussion of “Medical learning curves and the Kantian ideal”—for example—draws the mistaken inference that that ideal is inconsistent with the realities of medical practice. But it is not. Rationally to be a patient entails accepting its necessary conditions. ER -