%0 Journal Article %T Revisiting the need for virtue in medical practice: a reflection upon the teaching of Edmund Pellegrino %A Luchuo Engelbert Bain %J Archive of "Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine : PEHM". %D 2018 %R 10.1186/s13010-018-0057-0 %X Thanks to Dr. Tosam Jerome Mbih, of the Department of Philosophy, University of Bamenda, Cameroon, for reading the initial versions of the manuscript, and to Prof. James Giordano of the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University Medical Center for important direction on the final version of this essay %K Edmund Pellegrino %K Ethics %K Morality %K Virtue %K Art of medicine %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5891999/