compassion - Compassion , defined as understanding and concern for another person‘s distress . It is essential for the practice of medicine. In order to deal with the patient‘s problems , the must identify the symptoms that the patient is experiencing and their underlying causes and must want to help the patient achieve relief.
- A very higher degree of competence is both
- expected and required of physicians. A lack
- of competence can result in death and serious morbidity for patients.
- Physician undergo long training period to ensure competence ,but considering the rapid advance of medical knowledge . It is a continual challenge for them to maintain their competence.
- Or self-determination , is the core value of medicine that has changed the most over the years.
- Individual physicians have traditionally enjoyed a high degree of clinical autonomy in deciding how to treat their patients.
- At the same time , there has been wide spread acceptance by physicians worldwide of patient autonomy ,which means that patients should be the ultimate decision – makers in matters that affect themselves.
- The physician‘s duty to keep patient information confidential has been a cornerstone of medical ethics since the time of Hippocrates.
- Hippocrates Oath states : “what I may see or hear in the course of treatment or even out side of the treatment in regard to the life of man ,which on no account must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such
- things shameful to be spoken about.”
- The Oath , and some more recent versions
- , allow no exception to this duty of confidentiality . However , other codes rejects this absolutist approach to confidentiality.
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