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Cir Gen 2019; 41 (1)

Teaching of surgery and responsibility to future generations

Campos A

Language: Spanish
References: 15
Page: 63-68
PDF size: 183.86 Kb.


ABSTRACT

In this paper, the responsibility to future generations of surgeons is discussed. Excuses and justifications are analyzed as alternatives to avoid responsibility, as is the recognition of responsibility according to ethics and the law. The ambiguity of the Official Mexican Standard (in Spanish Norma Oficial Mexicana, NOM) for the organization and functioning of medical residencies and its lack of binding to the enforcement of educative obligations are also discussed. Then, the question of whether we have contractual or utilitarian obligations towards future individuals or, rather, an obligation of retribution is analyzed. A mental experiment is posed, of being operated upon by our worst pupil, and some questions entailed by the consequences of this fact are made. It is concluded that the practice of surgery and its teaching are public goods and that bad quality of teaching is a neglect of due care.


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