2011, Number 1
Ethics in medical practice
Fernández CL
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Language: Spanish
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Page: 40-43
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ABSTRACT
Since ancient times Hippocrates, Esculapio and Maimon had written about ethics in medicine, in spite of this, the scientific advance has forgotten the human side of medicine. Today’s industry and the globalization have grown up so much that had left behind doctors’ work, becoming just a qualified laboring man, who has forgotten that a human being has an emotional side, a person who feels and suffers just like we do and deserves a human and dignified treatment. The problem with medicine schools is that they haven’t made the human being as an integral part of the structure of these studies and that’s why some ideas, hypothesis and more go directly to a biological body not a human. Since medicine beginning’s it has been known that the responsibility from the doctor goes beyond the money interests. Maimon’s vow says: “Don´t let neither meanness nor greed, nor good reputation flatter my mentality because the truth and justice enemies could betray me and made me forget my purpose of acting properly with my fellows”. It’s needed and indispensable to make future doctors notice about the importance of empathy towards their patients. They must visualize the doctor-patient relationship as a helpful one which is needed to heal the pain taking account that the patient is asking for it, asking to be heard, to be taken care of, to be cured, searching for the sensitive doctor who is supposed to have the cure in his hands. We must help future doctors understand the importance of empathy towards their patients. Not everybody can become a doctor, is needed special skills and the right attitude, in other words to receive “the call” of medicine.REFERENCES